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Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by poorjohnmacafee on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:25AM (#28457492)
I read because I was curious what "climate career" means. From the article they mention:

Urban farmer

Environmental consultant

Environmental scientist

Environmental lawyer

Environmental activist

Or joining the proposed "Climate Corps", a federal jobs program for young people to help fight the climate crisis [doing what though?]

Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by Voloskaya on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:43AM (#28457771)
You can have a "climate career" doing pretty much any job you would like.

You can be an IT, a dev, a mechanical engineer, an accountant in a startup working on carbon removal [1], you can be a chemist researching new ways of producing cement with less CO2 impact [2], a farmer specializing in multistrata agroforestry [3], a technician installing solar panels etc.

[1]: https://carbonengineering.com/careers/

[2]: https://drawdown.org/solutions/alternative-cement

[3]: https://drawdown.org/solutions/multistrata-agroforestry

Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by poorjohnmacafee on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:56PM (#28464094)
That's a neat, pretty small scale set of jobs there.
Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by agomez314 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:29AM (#28457567)
pretty soon we'll have Environmental software developer
Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by agustif on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:35AM (#28457657)
I nominate this guy then https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by dgb23 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:00AM (#28458074)
This site is beautiful from the in- and outside.
Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by cblconfederate on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:33AM (#28457632)
i optimize my code cycles to environmental standards. Best CO2/LOC ratio in 5 years
Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by Aachen on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:36AM (#28457665)
You joke, but code optimization is a career. If you can make something run much more efficiently, there's money to be made. I can't remember the name of the consultancy that did this though.
Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by cblconfederate on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:40AM (#28457724)
if it were so profitable maybe some things wouldnt be so bloated
Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by Aachen on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:13AM (#28458285)
Yeah the job is not exactly widespread. I guess because most of that stuff is just "ship it and not our problem" (the user is used to buying new hardware every 5 years to do the same tasks anyway).
Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by kibbleble on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:48AM (#28480201)
I hope that attitude changes. Buying new hardware every 5 years should not be the norm.
Re:Gen Z members flock to climate careers by theandrewbailey on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:08AM (#28458190)
Can't come soon enough. Randall's Python environment is really screwed. Node.js is a lost cause.

https://xkcd.com/1987/

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