There’s a trend in EA and now more general circles to “offset your carbon footprint” but again this feels like a mitigation/reactionary way of spending your money. I would much rather my money go to nuclear fusion research b/c if it worked out, it would have orders of magnitude more impact than simply mitigating my own carbon footprint
I’m not familiar with carbon offsetting as being a ‘trend in EA’ - as far as I’m aware the canonical EA treatment of this is Claire’s piece arguing against it.
Similarly, if I look at the EA forum wiki page for climate change, every single bullet point is about research, and the first one is ‘innovative approaches to clean energy’ which includes nuclear.
I’m not familiar with carbon offsetting as being a ‘trend in EA’ - as far as I’m aware the canonical EA treatment of this is Claire’s piece arguing against it.
Similarly, if I look at the EA forum wiki page for climate change, every single bullet point is about research, and the first one is ‘innovative approaches to clean energy’ which includes nuclear.