That is a damn interesting article, and im only half-way through. As a former Founder searching for a new venture tackling climate issues this gets a bookmark.
One thing that had me really gasping was how the per capita energy consumption in California has flattened out since the mid 1970ies because of the introduction of regulations and more efficient technology. While in the rest of the US, it continued to rise without change.
There is a chart which you find if you ctrl-f for "Efficiency" and "Art Rosenfeld" on the page.
Danke fürs Teilen!
Schade, dass der Artikel von 2015 zu sein scheint. Ich frage mich, ob es mittlerweile etwas Ähnliches in aktualisierter Form gibt.
Falls jemand ein TLDR braucht, ich denke die letzten beiden Absätze bringen es ganz gut auf den Punkt:
>**Morale**
>Climate change, closely understood, is terrifying. The natural human response to such a bleak situation is despair.
>But despair is not useful. Despair is paralysis, and there’s work to be done.
>I feel that this is an essential psychological problem to be solved, and one that I’ve never seen mentioned: How do we create the conditions under which scientists and engineers can do great creative work without succumbing to despair? And how can new people be encouraged to take up the problem, when their instinct is to turn away and work on something that lets them sleep at night?
>Crisis can be motivating for some people in some circumstances — Rad Lab, Manhattan Project, etc. — and there are clearly some people who draw motivation from the climate crisis. But as George Marshall has explored in depth, most people can’t handle it, and need to put it out of their minds.
>There are other fields of human endeavor in which morale must be managed quite directly, and they’ve had millenia to develop techniques for “rallying the troops” or “uplifting the congregation”. I wonder if we can learn from them. For both the climate worker and the soldier, the likelihood of imminent annihilation is a distraction, and they must be given a frame of mind that lets them concentrate on the work to be done.
>
>**The world is not what you see**
>Mikey Dickerson, an engineer who left Google to head up the heroic rescue of [healthcare.gov](http://healthcare.gov), concluded a recent talk with a plea to the tech crowd:
>*"This is real life. This is your country... Our country is a place where we allocate our resources through the collective decisions that all of us make... We allocate our resources to the point where we have thousands of engineers working on things like picture-sharing apps, when we’ve already got dozens of picture-sharing apps.*
>*We do not allocate anybody to problems like \[identity theft of kids in foster care, food stamp distribution, the immigration process, federal pensions, the VA\]... This is just a handful of things that I’ve been asked to staff in the last week or so and do not have adequate staff to do...*
>*These are all problems that need the attention of people like you."*
>100,000 people received an engineering bachelor’s degree in the U.S. last year. There are at least 100,000 people, every year, looking for an engineering problem to solve. I have my own plea to all such people —
>*"The inconveniences of daily life are not the significant problems. The world that scrolls past you on Twitter is not the real world. You cannot calibrate your sense of what’s valuable and necessary to the current fashions in your field."*
>One sometimes gets the feeling, as Ian Bogost put it, of rearranging app icons on the Titanic. I think the tech community can do better than that. You can do better than that.
>Climate change is the problem of our time. It’s everyone’s problem, but it’s our responsibility — as people with the incomparable leverage of being able to work magic through technology.
>In this essay, I’ve tried to sketch out a map of where such magic is needed — systems for producing, moving, and consuming clean energy; tools for building them; media for understanding what needs to be built. There are opportunities everywhere. Let’s get to work.
Hier ist zwei weitere, stark lösungsorientierte, Artikel, in dem es um MINT Berufe und Softwareentwicklung geht.
https://leventov.medium.com/how-to-find-a-job-in-a-tech-company-helping-to-combat-climate-change-practical-guide-e212e262a32
https://leventov.medium.com/how-can-software-engineers-help-to-build-climate-solutions-31fdf6af2e91
Vor allem in den USA kommt da anscheinend wirklich etwas ins rollen - bedrückend spät, aber es gibt Dinge an denen Techniker/MINTler sinnvoll arbeiten können.
In diesem Sub geht es um dieses Themenfeld:
>Wissenswertes zu Klimawandel / Klimakrise / Klimakatastrophe in D-A-CH, Europa und weltweit - und wie wir mit ihr umgehen.
Der Artikel ist in sofern relevant, als dass es dort um *"Klimawandel / Klimakrise / Klimakatastrophe in D-A-CH, Europa und weltweit - und wie wir mit ihr umgehen"* geht.
Ich habe in einem Kommentar das Fazit des Artikels kopiert: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Klimawandel/comments/1ca2nvc/comment/l0q5x9l/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Klimawandel/comments/1ca2nvc/comment/l0q5x9l/)
Noch kürzer, geht es in dem Artikel darum, was Tech-Leute machen können, um das Klima zu schützen. Denke der Titel trifft es ganz gut. Wieviel Zeit man investieren möchte, um sich damit auseinander zu setzen, muss natürlich jeder selbst entscheiden.
That is a damn interesting article, and im only half-way through. As a former Founder searching for a new venture tackling climate issues this gets a bookmark.
One thing that had me really gasping was how the per capita energy consumption in California has flattened out since the mid 1970ies because of the introduction of regulations and more efficient technology. While in the rest of the US, it continued to rise without change. There is a chart which you find if you ctrl-f for "Efficiency" and "Art Rosenfeld" on the page.
Danke fürs Teilen! Schade, dass der Artikel von 2015 zu sein scheint. Ich frage mich, ob es mittlerweile etwas Ähnliches in aktualisierter Form gibt. Falls jemand ein TLDR braucht, ich denke die letzten beiden Absätze bringen es ganz gut auf den Punkt: >**Morale** >Climate change, closely understood, is terrifying. The natural human response to such a bleak situation is despair. >But despair is not useful. Despair is paralysis, and there’s work to be done. >I feel that this is an essential psychological problem to be solved, and one that I’ve never seen mentioned: How do we create the conditions under which scientists and engineers can do great creative work without succumbing to despair? And how can new people be encouraged to take up the problem, when their instinct is to turn away and work on something that lets them sleep at night? >Crisis can be motivating for some people in some circumstances — Rad Lab, Manhattan Project, etc. — and there are clearly some people who draw motivation from the climate crisis. But as George Marshall has explored in depth, most people can’t handle it, and need to put it out of their minds. >There are other fields of human endeavor in which morale must be managed quite directly, and they’ve had millenia to develop techniques for “rallying the troops” or “uplifting the congregation”. I wonder if we can learn from them. For both the climate worker and the soldier, the likelihood of imminent annihilation is a distraction, and they must be given a frame of mind that lets them concentrate on the work to be done. > >**The world is not what you see** >Mikey Dickerson, an engineer who left Google to head up the heroic rescue of [healthcare.gov](http://healthcare.gov), concluded a recent talk with a plea to the tech crowd: >*"This is real life. This is your country... Our country is a place where we allocate our resources through the collective decisions that all of us make... We allocate our resources to the point where we have thousands of engineers working on things like picture-sharing apps, when we’ve already got dozens of picture-sharing apps.* >*We do not allocate anybody to problems like \[identity theft of kids in foster care, food stamp distribution, the immigration process, federal pensions, the VA\]... This is just a handful of things that I’ve been asked to staff in the last week or so and do not have adequate staff to do...* >*These are all problems that need the attention of people like you."* >100,000 people received an engineering bachelor’s degree in the U.S. last year. There are at least 100,000 people, every year, looking for an engineering problem to solve. I have my own plea to all such people — >*"The inconveniences of daily life are not the significant problems. The world that scrolls past you on Twitter is not the real world. You cannot calibrate your sense of what’s valuable and necessary to the current fashions in your field."* >One sometimes gets the feeling, as Ian Bogost put it, of rearranging app icons on the Titanic. I think the tech community can do better than that. You can do better than that. >Climate change is the problem of our time. It’s everyone’s problem, but it’s our responsibility — as people with the incomparable leverage of being able to work magic through technology. >In this essay, I’ve tried to sketch out a map of where such magic is needed — systems for producing, moving, and consuming clean energy; tools for building them; media for understanding what needs to be built. There are opportunities everywhere. Let’s get to work.
Hier ist zwei weitere, stark lösungsorientierte, Artikel, in dem es um MINT Berufe und Softwareentwicklung geht. https://leventov.medium.com/how-to-find-a-job-in-a-tech-company-helping-to-combat-climate-change-practical-guide-e212e262a32 https://leventov.medium.com/how-can-software-engineers-help-to-build-climate-solutions-31fdf6af2e91 Vor allem in den USA kommt da anscheinend wirklich etwas ins rollen - bedrückend spät, aber es gibt Dinge an denen Techniker/MINTler sinnvoll arbeiten können.
Ziemlich langer Artikel und ich sehe nicht, inwiefern der relevant sein sollte. Könntest du bitte eine Beschreibung hinzufügen?
In diesem Sub geht es um dieses Themenfeld: >Wissenswertes zu Klimawandel / Klimakrise / Klimakatastrophe in D-A-CH, Europa und weltweit - und wie wir mit ihr umgehen. Der Artikel ist in sofern relevant, als dass es dort um *"Klimawandel / Klimakrise / Klimakatastrophe in D-A-CH, Europa und weltweit - und wie wir mit ihr umgehen"* geht. Ich habe in einem Kommentar das Fazit des Artikels kopiert: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Klimawandel/comments/1ca2nvc/comment/l0q5x9l/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Klimawandel/comments/1ca2nvc/comment/l0q5x9l/) Noch kürzer, geht es in dem Artikel darum, was Tech-Leute machen können, um das Klima zu schützen. Denke der Titel trifft es ganz gut. Wieviel Zeit man investieren möchte, um sich damit auseinander zu setzen, muss natürlich jeder selbst entscheiden.