As someone in the EAA space, I’m curious how much value EAA movement-building brings relative to general animal advocacy movement-building. ACE has cited the latter as neglected. In general I think EAA movement-building may be somewhat narrower because of the conjunction of beliefs (animal advocacy and EA), which I would think makes it less tractable and potentially lower in scale.
Sure! I’d guess it depends on the project. I doubt that narrowly supporting effectiveness-focused individuals or organisations would always be the best use of resources, but I’d guess that it would be in most cases (say, 70% of marginal EAA movement building resources over the next 5 years?)
Offering movement building services to some organisations might be a lower priority if you think that those organisations don’t have a particularly positive impact anyway.
There are also costs of broadening the scope of some shared resources/services; it makes coordination harder and mutual support less useful. An intuitive (though possibly slightly unfair) comparison is between the EAA Facebook discussion group to various AR or vegan groups. If someone only had time to create/manage one of those two resources, I’d much prefer the former. I think my current view on this is similar to CEA’s (e.g. see the section on “preserving value” here).
PS I’m not worried about the total scale being low, if there are opportunities that would likely be cost-effective (see this related post, if interested).
As someone in the EAA space, I’m curious how much value EAA movement-building brings relative to general animal advocacy movement-building. ACE has cited the latter as neglected. In general I think EAA movement-building may be somewhat narrower because of the conjunction of beliefs (animal advocacy and EA), which I would think makes it less tractable and potentially lower in scale.
Sure! I’d guess it depends on the project. I doubt that narrowly supporting effectiveness-focused individuals or organisations would always be the best use of resources, but I’d guess that it would be in most cases (say, 70% of marginal EAA movement building resources over the next 5 years?)
Offering movement building services to some organisations might be a lower priority if you think that those organisations don’t have a particularly positive impact anyway.
There are also costs of broadening the scope of some shared resources/services; it makes coordination harder and mutual support less useful. An intuitive (though possibly slightly unfair) comparison is between the EAA Facebook discussion group to various AR or vegan groups. If someone only had time to create/manage one of those two resources, I’d much prefer the former. I think my current view on this is similar to CEA’s (e.g. see the section on “preserving value” here).
PS I’m not worried about the total scale being low, if there are opportunities that would likely be cost-effective (see this related post, if interested).