![]() Just like in the regular world, there are factions, politics, and competing belief systems.įor example, I did not find that people who are interested in climate fall cleanly along a certain political line of thinking, or even a shared set of values or goals. Instead, they inhabit a parallel, mirror world that looks a lot like the non-climate world. People who work in and around climate don’t all believe the same things. Pass through the asteroid belt of climate doomerism, and the universe expands into a rich panoply of different climate tribes. Whether one believes in climate change is no longer the interesting question now it’s “What do you think is the right approach?” ![]() What I found instead is that while the media still portrays climate as a simple question of beliefs, the climate field has long moved on to diversified solutions. I was searching for the one weird reason that was causing hordes of people to drop what they were doing and march, hypnotically, towards the same problem space. Initially, I started with the idea that climate was an attractive industry for “doomer” types, and I painted their motivations monolithically. Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer? With many peers in tech now working on climate issues, I tried to understand why this topic holds such purchase for so many people – and its incredible staying power over the decades.
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