What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view.
Frustrated by a sense of global mispriorities, I blurted out some snarky and mildly regrettable tweets on the lack of attention to climate change in the tech industry (Twitter being a sublime medium for the snarky and regrettable). Climate change is the problem of our time, it’s everyone’s problem, and most of our problem-solvers are assuming that someone else will solve it.
What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view. People say “this is a Manhattan Project, this an Apollo Project”. Sorry, those are science projects. Fusion is a Manhattan Project or an Apollo Project... The rest of this is more like retooling for World War II , except with everyone playing on the same team. — Saul Griffith, on converting the world to clean energy This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. — Vannevar Bush, on World War II What can a technologist do about climate change? (A personal view) Bret Victor / November 2015 Thi
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