Suppose you think efforts to reduce long-term risk are more effective than reducing short-term risk, but you don’t know what to do. Then it makes more sense to invest rather than spending your money on the less effective cause, because future people will probably figure out what to do, and then they can spend your investment on the more effective cause.
Suppose you think efforts to reduce long-term risk are more effective than reducing short-term risk, but you don’t know what to do. Then it makes more sense to invest rather than spending your money on the less effective cause, because future people will probably figure out what to do, and then they can spend your investment on the more effective cause.
If insufficient efforts are made to reduce short-term x-risk, there may not be future generations to spend your investment.