Hi Locke—I’m not 100% sure how seriously nuclear Armageddon is taken in the EA community as I’m also pretty new. I’m just starting a piece of research to try and highlight where specific de-carbonisation efforts will be found (focused on a specific country—in my case Canada). Even though I haven’t started I strongly suspect the answer will be agriculture, as it accounts for a very large proportion of emissions, there are many proven, scalable low cost solutions and it seems to me to be very neglected from a funding point of view (I say that based on some brief research I did on the UK) compared to other areas like electric vehicles and renewable energy.
Does the Doomsday Clock and the bulletin of the Atomic scientists come up much in EA? I’m a bit new to this scene. https://thebulletin.org/
Jerry Brown’s warnings about nuclear Armageddon and the slow building climate tidal wave have definitely turned me on that organization.
Where do you see the opportunity to make a difference in the decarbonization effort?
Hi Locke—I’m not 100% sure how seriously nuclear Armageddon is taken in the EA community as I’m also pretty new. I’m just starting a piece of research to try and highlight where specific de-carbonisation efforts will be found (focused on a specific country—in my case Canada). Even though I haven’t started I strongly suspect the answer will be agriculture, as it accounts for a very large proportion of emissions, there are many proven, scalable low cost solutions and it seems to me to be very neglected from a funding point of view (I say that based on some brief research I did on the UK) compared to other areas like electric vehicles and renewable energy.