Which career would allow one to help fight global warming?
I don't know if this sounds ridiculous or not... please be polite and helpful!
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If you want to predict climate patterns, that would be climatology. If you want to battle the world environmental ills, there are a variety of options. Environmentalist, environmental educator, park ranger, environmental engineer, permaculturalist, etc etc etc.
Global warming is a myth, invented by that liberal fat porker, Al Gore, who also invented the Internet (supposedly).
if you are wanting a career in which you will be able to stop 'global warming', I would suggest god, but I believe that job has been taken..but seriously, follow the link or find some other reputable scientific data to base your career decisions on..
The field you're talking about is climatology. If you want to study global climate change and make predictions about what will happen with the climate in the future, that's climatology with some computer programming involved (as the models are run on computers).
It doesn't sound ridiculous at all - if I could go back to college, that's what I would study too. Climate models are a fairly new and complex field, and they predict the future effects of global warming which is quite possibly the most important issue the human race has ever faced, so it's an excellent field to go into.
Meteorologists are basically weathermen. When you study meteorology in college, you're not required to take any climatology classes. Thus few meteorologists understand global warming or its effects. Unfortunately not a lot of people realize this, so they treat meteorologists as experts on global climate change (after all, they predict the weather!), but if a meteorologist tells you something about global warming, he's probably talking out his butt.
Become a professional tree hugger (just joking). Meteorolgy. sciences, news presenter - to get that message out there! Im not really sure.
You do not have to be a meteorologist, biologist, social psychologist or anything similar to convince others that humans are on the self-destruction path of their petroleum based civilization. Most of us are aware of this.
Your best chance for a career of such purpose, would be to become a politician. As politician, you would have the know-how to gather your team of: scientists, writers, journalists, marketing experts, etc., and fight the so many other "positioned" politicians who would oppose you, in some set social political system. As politician, you would be able to deliver to the masses whatever you feel like having "predicted," and drive them to the ultimate goal of saving us all.
You could invest (drive investment) into lightning power research :), where Tesla stopped… The only reason this research was halted was because of “low profit” reasons. So, even if you feel like becoming an electrical engineer guru to help us all, you would be bodychecked by a politician, if not silenced as they practice to do (Was on yahoo news.).
It is sad that the two strongest computers; one is used in Japan for weather forecast and the other in USA for military prediction. USA is the top polluter of this planet (gallon per individual) and a strong petroleum based society. Its military strategy, besides destroying Russia, is based on controlling petroleum regions. All this for the endless (read: with end) extra profit of the few.
Speaking of Japan. Japan and South Korea agreed from highest political levels to sacrifice the commodities of several generations for the economic boom they are in now. This same thing could be done with the petroleum menace. (It would be as tough as getting rid of mobile phones.) Just 300 years ago, people were as happy without petroleum… Today, people do have the knowledge and power to use other sources of energy, even for their silly vehicle needs. They simply do not have the “pull” (collective consciousness maturity) to help future generations – their own children whom they are pushing to a very dangerous slope of human evolution. 300 years from now, we could all enjoy the fruits of an ecological boom, but we need to breathe the slope of consequences that still await us. If we stop using petroleum today, alternative energies would rush to our homes by tomorrow. The power of motivation is as simple as that.
To help fight global warming, the human civilization would have to make decisions from highest above and as radical as possible, against a very powerful enemy - petroleum hell and its vassals. The "all these little things everyone can do" simply lead nowhere but to individual frustration (unless you isolate your family to some faraway territory like Canada and live happily ever after. But...) If you stop driving your petroleum car (jeep), someone else would use the extra petroleum, and the dark angels would still hunt you anywhere you go (on this planet)...
That is why we need more “good politicians.”
Good luck.
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