The issue is not only climate change, here. We are in dangerous territory for most of the planetary boundaries.
AI presents large existential risk in my mind
One of the points is that EAs do not seem to engage with large close-to-existential risks in the minds of degrowthers and the like. It is true that they do not have fleshed out to what extent their fears are existential, but this is because they are large enough for worrying them. See “Is this risk actually existential?” may be less important than we think.
I like your second point. But still, even if it is less politically feasible, as you say, if the risk is large enough EA should be in favour of degrowth. My point is that very little effort has been done to address this if.
The issue is not only climate change, here. We are in dangerous territory for most of the planetary boundaries.
One of the points is that EAs do not seem to engage with large close-to-existential risks in the minds of degrowthers and the like. It is true that they do not have fleshed out to what extent their fears are existential, but this is because they are large enough for worrying them. See “Is this risk actually existential?” may be less important than we think.
I like your second point. But still, even if it is less politically feasible, as you say, if the risk is large enough EA should be in favour of degrowth. My point is that very little effort has been done to address this if.