My impression is elasticity concerns usually only cut the farmed animal impacts of demand shifts by about 30-70%. I think the post’s analysis above also didn’t include descendants of the births directly prevented, which could make up for that.
The agglomeration effect seems very small to me. The probability that this person contributes other than just through diffuse societal benefits to others (targeted contributions to alt proteins and diet change instead of diffuse benefits to society through goods and services, taxes, etc.) seems very very small, and diffuse societal benefits seem very unlikely to make any significant difference at all (e.g. to funding for alt proteins).
My impression is elasticity concerns usually only cut the farmed animal impacts of demand shifts by about 30-70%. I think the post’s analysis above also didn’t include descendants of the births directly prevented, which could make up for that.
The agglomeration effect seems very small to me. The probability that this person contributes other than just through diffuse societal benefits to others (targeted contributions to alt proteins and diet change instead of diffuse benefits to society through goods and services, taxes, etc.) seems very very small, and diffuse societal benefits seem very unlikely to make any significant difference at all (e.g. to funding for alt proteins).