Thanks for the reply Ben. It’s great to hear that you’re looking at producing more content and doing more engagement in this area!
Looking at the old cause selection list from 2017-18 (link) I notice that climate change was ranked #9, below factory farming and improving global health. From your more recent cause prio from 2019 (link), it seems that it’s now somewhere in the top seven. Can I ask what’s changed to cause 80K to update their cause prioritisation?
The very short answer for why we prioritise it is that I think tail risks from climate change have a stronger claim to be in the longtermist portfolio than global health and factory farming (e.g. see The Precipice). I’d need to think more about what exactly has changed since 2017-2018.
Thanks for the reply Ben. It’s great to hear that you’re looking at producing more content and doing more engagement in this area!
Looking at the old cause selection list from 2017-18 (link) I notice that climate change was ranked #9, below factory farming and improving global health. From your more recent cause prio from 2019 (link), it seems that it’s now somewhere in the top seven. Can I ask what’s changed to cause 80K to update their cause prioritisation?
The very short answer for why we prioritise it is that I think tail risks from climate change have a stronger claim to be in the longtermist portfolio than global health and factory farming (e.g. see The Precipice). I’d need to think more about what exactly has changed since 2017-2018.