What role can CS majors play in the fight against the climate crisis?

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Watershed

Your best bet with your current skillset (assuming you're more SWE-oriented) would be to join forward-looking startups and companies in the climate space. There's plenty of startups that are in need of engineers, and it would surprise you that a lot of them are relatively well-funded (e.g. https://watershedclimate.com/, funded by Stripe founders and Kleiner Perkins). Alternatively, you can probably join as a SWE for a renewable energy company (e.g. Tesla, battery companies, etc) given that they're also well-capitalized. From an academic perspective, you can probably participate in research on and off-campus. Good luck!

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Climatebase 🌎

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Climatescape

+1 Climatebase.org is a great resource. https://climatescape.org/ is another good one Some newsletters/communities I find helpful: My Climate Journey on Substack and Work on Climate More generally, I think a lot of industries, energy included, are a lot farther behind in software development than one might think. There's still a lot of "basic" SWE stuff to do, especially with all the new startups that are popping up in this field. Lots of frontend+backend development, mobile app dev, just applied to problems in clean energy!

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