What can a technologist do about climate change?
I&#x27;ve asked this question a few times but haven&#x27;t really gotten a satisfactory answer. There are a lot of what I might call &quot;epic problems&quot; out there. Malaria, homelessness, HIV, refugees, war, climate change, income inequality, gender inequality, hate crimes.<p>I don&#x27;t know anything about creating vaccines or cures for malaria or HIV. I don&#x27;t have a degree in social work or behavior science. I don&#x27;t have any experience with economics outside of personal investment and filing my income tax paperwork each year. I don&#x27;t have billions of dollars to fund a company to focus on these things.<p>I make a small salary relative to what&#x27;s required for these things and have very limited knowledge.<p>I&#x27;m a programmer and a manager. So how do I contribute to these problems? How can I take the skills I have and get homeless people the help they need? How do I take my web development skills and reduce income inequality? How do I help stop the next Trayvon Martin incident?<p>I have no idea. This article goes into great detail about climate change, but I finished reading it and still have no idea. I don&#x27;t even know where to start.