I have seen very little discussions about these things in EA circles and I dont know of a thorough investigation. Maybe some EAs have briefly thought about it but think that the cause is not as important/tractable/neglected as other causes, without doing a long writeup.
As for extinction of a single species, I imagine that moral factors are also at play here. Many people (including me), consider the extinction of homo sapiens to be much worse than the extinction of the “wandering albatross” (which I pulled from your linked list).
I think there should be more discussions of animal x-risk and/or animal longtermism within EA. I definitely care more about human extinction than animal extinction and think human extinction risk should be a higher priority, but that does not mean that animal extinction risk should not be considered. For example, I think considering both human and animal xrisk might change how much climate change is prioritised as an existential risk, and what interventions are worth focusing on for it (there are definitely more people focussing on climate change compared to other xrisks outside of EA, but that does not mean that the best interventions have been focussed on similar to the global poverty space).
I don’t have strong opinions on ‘this should definitely be prioritised’, but I think at least a few people should be researching this (to see if it is important/tractable/neglected/etc), and it should be discussed more than it currently is.
I have seen very little discussions about these things in EA circles and I dont know of a thorough investigation. Maybe some EAs have briefly thought about it but think that the cause is not as important/tractable/neglected as other causes, without doing a long writeup.
As for extinction of a single species, I imagine that moral factors are also at play here. Many people (including me), consider the extinction of homo sapiens to be much worse than the extinction of the “wandering albatross” (which I pulled from your linked list).
I think there should be more discussions of animal x-risk and/or animal longtermism within EA. I definitely care more about human extinction than animal extinction and think human extinction risk should be a higher priority, but that does not mean that animal extinction risk should not be considered. For example, I think considering both human and animal xrisk might change how much climate change is prioritised as an existential risk, and what interventions are worth focusing on for it (there are definitely more people focussing on climate change compared to other xrisks outside of EA, but that does not mean that the best interventions have been focussed on similar to the global poverty space).
I don’t have strong opinions on ‘this should definitely be prioritised’, but I think at least a few people should be researching this (to see if it is important/tractable/neglected/etc), and it should be discussed more than it currently is.