He quit Google to work on climate change. Now, he’s helping others do the same thing
In July 2020, two former Google employees launched a Slack network for people who want to work on climate solutions. It now has more than 8,500 members.
Three years ago, while working as a software engineer at Google, Eugene Kirpichov happened to watch Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth on a long flight. On the flight back, he watched the sequel. Afterward, he couldn’t stop thinking about climate change. “Every time I would meet someone who was a real [climate] expert, I would ask them, ‘Is it really that bad?'” he says. “And they’d say, ‘Yeah, it’s really that bad.'”