In my view yes, for the reasons Ben Todd gives below. I also did some brief back of the envelope calculations using Danny’s Bressler’s mortality cost of carbon here. This is also something Will MacAskill has been talking about a lot more recently, and he talks about the long-term importance of climate change here. And also as Ben Todd and Max say below—I also agree that it’s possible there’s longtermist work, e.g. on GCBRs and maybe AI, that has a higher expected impact. But I think climate change is a fairly straightforward longtermist bet. We’ve recently added the Founders Pledge climate fund to EA Funds here.
In my view yes, for the reasons Ben Todd gives below. I also did some brief back of the envelope calculations using Danny’s Bressler’s mortality cost of carbon here. This is also something Will MacAskill has been talking about a lot more recently, and he talks about the long-term importance of climate change here. And also as Ben Todd and Max say below—I also agree that it’s possible there’s longtermist work, e.g. on GCBRs and maybe AI, that has a higher expected impact. But I think climate change is a fairly straightforward longtermist bet. We’ve recently added the Founders Pledge climate fund to EA Funds here.