What's the "greenest" industry?

Question

As a software developer, I suspect that my job is "green", but I'm not sure that my employeer (an airline) can do much to conserve oil (query "peak oil").

What, in your opinion, would be a better, greener industry? I'd prefer to work in an industry that helps conserve oil and has a positive impact on all life on the planet.

Maybe healthcare?

Answer 1

Your question is a really good one for right now because all minds that want to promote sustainable living are needed to make their contribution. Everyone's unique individual contribution is important to the overall picture.

Tonight I heard about a scientist who is working to "suck" CO2 out of the air. The other day I heard about a doctor who suspected that there were genes that were both susceptible to damage by toxic chemicals and were responsible for autism. She got together with a biogeneticist and they poured over the genome map and sure enough they found 100 commonalities.

Basically what I'm saying is this: as a software developer, there are many people researching problems related to environmental issues that could use programs to help them process massive amounts of data. If you do a little scratching, you might find someone who could use your help and you could be of great service to them and to the planet. Check the universities, check the job boards, check the craigslist job boards for your city.... software developers are wanted everywhere.

There's also something else you should keep in mind. Being pro-sustainability is good anywhere. You can have an impact by infiltration--your values getting together with others of like mind even where you're working now may be able to positively impact even the airline industry!

By the way, I believe that the scientists who want to bury CO2 are crazy. Don't they know it turns to acid so easily? But I do think there's a way to accelerate the development of fossil fuels and I think someone should be researching that.

Answer 2

Information technology is not very green. Think about all the electricity used. Power generation actually uses more oil than all the airplanes in the world. Healthcare is no good, either; it uses lots of electricity, too, plus it generates an enormous amount of waste, especially plastics, as biohazards mean that everything gets thrown out after just one use.

The greenest industries are organic farming (not large-scale corporate agriculture) and being a serial killer (with knives and/or clubs, not guns). Or I suppose you could use a nice crossbow. For the murder, not the farming.

The murder doesn't pay well (people don't carry much cash any more), so I recommend the farming.

Answer 3

For a fact, your job may not be as green as you thought. Firs, all the materials for the hardware needed for you to do your job are made up of toxic materials, much more worse than your employers waste product. Electronics and other major components of all your tools for your job are process with deadly toxic materials both to human and nature. So don't excuse your job.

Now the real green jobs are the farmers jobs before the mechanization era and pure organic era, which had been the backbone of the entire human race. The uses their farming horses or cows or water buffalos to till the soil to plant their produce and the only waste they make is oxygen emitted by their crops, and in some cases, methane gas. The only green farmers nowadays are the Amish Community, and in some third class agricultural country. The only reason farming became less greener is due to high demands that they ought to meet. For the human race to survive. Farming also include the herd raisers, sheep, goat, cows, swine etc.

So before telling the world you got a green job, be sure to check your facts! Even the very waste of your industry are mostly non-biodegradable and are expensive to recycle.

Answer 4

Health care is a great field to go into. it is secure and in demand also salary is very decent considering the amount of schooling you get. eg. RN you only need an associates or a bachelors degree, depending on where you you are looking at 46-60 grand per year+ benefits. Phycians-assistant is masters degree and you are looking at 100grand/ year+benefits. this is not a bad field to go into.