“[Climate change interventions are] just so robustly good, especially when it comes to what Founders Pledge typically champions funding the most: clean tech. Renewables, super hot rock geothermal, and other sorts of clean energy technologies are really good in a lot of worlds, over the very long term — and we have very good evidence to think that. A lot of the other stuff we’re doing is much more speculative. So I’ve started to view [working on climate change] as the GiveDirectly of longtermist interventions. It’s a fairly safe option.”
“[Climate change interventions are] just so robustly good, especially when it comes to what Founders Pledge typically champions funding the most: clean tech. Renewables, super hot rock geothermal, and other sorts of clean energy technologies are really good in a lot of worlds, over the very long term — and we have very good evidence to think that. A lot of the other stuff we’re doing is much more speculative. So I’ve started to view [working on climate change] as the GiveDirectly of longtermist interventions. It’s a fairly safe option.”
But then this might be a bit outdated now (see Good news on climate change ).