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| | Ask HN: Why don't geeks care about climate change? | |
12 points by mijustin on Nov 11, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 35 comments |
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| Maybe it's just me, but I'm surprised by how little the tech community talks about climate change. Searching HN, the top climate change story has about 100 points. Anecdotally, I don't see geeks discussing it elsewhere either (Twitter, blog posts). In terms of leaders and startups tackling the problem, I can only think of Elon and Tim Cook. Air travel, electricity consumption (think server farms), manufacturing, and shipping are big pieces of the startup culture and rarely seem challenged. This surprises me. We geeks have rational, logical minds. Is it just me, or do geeks not care about the issue? |
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No. Geeks just like tinkering with computers and/or electronics, and are better at that than others.
Some geeks think that because they're good at computers they must be equally good at everything else. (To be fair, I guess that also happens to other hobbies/professions.) That might explain why some geeks have so little respect for the opinion of actual experts.