Existential risks are not something they have worked on before, so my project is a new addition to their portfolio. I didn’t mention this but I intend to have a section for other risks depending on space. The reason climate change gets prioritized in the project is that arguably the EU has more of a role to play in climate change initiatives compared to, say, nuclear risks.
I imagine having climate change feature prominently could also help get buy-in for the whole project, since lots of people already care about climate change and it could be highlighted to them that the same basic reasoning arguably suggests they should care about other existential risks as well.
FWIW, I’d guess that the EU could do quite a bit on nuclear risks. But I haven’t thought about that question specifically very much yet, and I’d agree that they can tackle a larger fraction of the issue of climate change.
Existential risks are not something they have worked on before, so my project is a new addition to their portfolio. I didn’t mention this but I intend to have a section for other risks depending on space. The reason climate change gets prioritized in the project is that arguably the EU has more of a role to play in climate change initiatives compared to, say, nuclear risks.
Makes sense!
I imagine having climate change feature prominently could also help get buy-in for the whole project, since lots of people already care about climate change and it could be highlighted to them that the same basic reasoning arguably suggests they should care about other existential risks as well.
FWIW, I’d guess that the EU could do quite a bit on nuclear risks. But I haven’t thought about that question specifically very much yet, and I’d agree that they can tackle a larger fraction of the issue of climate change.