What are the motivations of people working in climate and climatetech? Nadia Asparouhova answers this in a thoughtful research essay "Mapping out the tribes of climate".
"While the media still portrays climate as a simple question of beliefs, the climate field has long moved on to diversified solutions. Climate is better understood not as a singular list of technology and policy action items, but as an assortment of climate tribes."
With Nadia's permission, ClimateTechList has produced a "climate personality" quiz to help you find your climate archetype. Answer these four questions to find out which archetype you are!
Here's a summary from Nadia's article on the 7 archetypes:
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Energy maximalism | Find cheap, plentiful sources of energy that move us past scarcity mindset |
| Climate urbanism | Build dense, resilient networks of people by focusing on urban development |
| Climate tech | Find low-hanging fruit and overlooked leverage points to make progress more |
| Eco-globalism | Reduce global carbon emissions by setting and enforcing targets |
| Environmentalism | Reduce our carbon footprint by learning to live within our limits and holding policymakers accountable |
| Neopastoralism | Revert society to a pre-industrial era, free from the harmful influence of technology |
| Doomerism | Prepare for the inevitable worst |
