I’m informed that EAs do not care about climate change
This is an exaggeration IMO. EAs care about climate change, but often don’t prioritise it, because they care about other things even more. If everything more important than climate change was solved, I think EAs would be working pretty hard on climate change.
Yeah, I think this meme is both damaging and mistaken and I’m disappointed to see it crop up again here. There’s plenty of evidence against such a broad assertion.
The Precipice dedicates an entire chapter to climate change, and I have it on good authority that climate change is discussed seriously in another important, upcoming EA book
Climate change has been discussed many times on the 80,000 Hours podcast, including extensively by Will Macaskill here
EA Funds lists the Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund on their website, and that Fund has raised millions of dollars for effective climate orgs
EA analysis and funding has been instrumentable in supporting a dramatic scale-up of the Clean Air Task Force, one of the best climate organizations in the world
This is an exaggeration IMO. EAs care about climate change, but often don’t prioritise it, because they care about other things even more. If everything more important than climate change was solved, I think EAs would be working pretty hard on climate change.
Yeah, I think this meme is both damaging and mistaken and I’m disappointed to see it crop up again here. There’s plenty of evidence against such a broad assertion.
The Precipice dedicates an entire chapter to climate change, and I have it on good authority that climate change is discussed seriously in another important, upcoming EA book
Climate change has been discussed many times on the 80,000 Hours podcast, including extensively by Will Macaskill here
EA Funds lists the Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund on their website, and that Fund has raised millions of dollars for effective climate orgs
EA analysis and funding has been instrumentable in supporting a dramatic scale-up of the Clean Air Task Force, one of the best climate organizations in the world