(Mandatory “this is anecdotal evidence” disclaimer).
I personally started using FarmKind’s Compassion Calculator after the Dwarkesh podcast with Lewis Bollard to offset my animal product consumption and am committed to continue doing this indefinitely, which would be roughly $54,000 over my lifetime in today’s dollars. I would put the chances of me becoming a lifelong vegan at less than 5%, so one could reasonable credit FarmKind (along with that podcast) with ~$50k in counterfactual donations from me alone.
Of course I am biased towards justifying my own choice, but I have a strong intuition that providing options for people to contribute toward farmed animal welfare without having to make large life changes is not only good, but possibly the most tractable path toward large scale change here. I’d love to hear counterarguments here though.
As for this specific campaign, I don’t have any high confidence takes besides acknowledging that this type of reflection and lessons learned post is good in all worlds.
(Mandatory “this is anecdotal evidence” disclaimer).
I personally started using FarmKind’s Compassion Calculator after the Dwarkesh podcast with Lewis Bollard to offset my animal product consumption and am committed to continue doing this indefinitely, which would be roughly $54,000 over my lifetime in today’s dollars. I would put the chances of me becoming a lifelong vegan at less than 5%, so one could reasonable credit FarmKind (along with that podcast) with ~$50k in counterfactual donations from me alone.
Of course I am biased towards justifying my own choice, but I have a strong intuition that providing options for people to contribute toward farmed animal welfare without having to make large life changes is not only good, but possibly the most tractable path toward large scale change here. I’d love to hear counterarguments here though.
As for this specific campaign, I don’t have any high confidence takes besides acknowledging that this type of reflection and lessons learned post is good in all worlds.