This is a good question. I didn’t see climate change as threatening enough to affect factory farming a lot but I haven’t thought about it much.
I think the question is more salient with work on global catastrophic risks : is it risky to stop pandemics, AI risks and nuclear wars when by doing that we are responsible for allowing factory farming to continue for a long time ?
Unless we think that the future is going to be super positive (with factory farming ending) I think there’s quite a risk here.
In any case, a way to perform mitigation on a way that also reduces farmed animal suffering is plant-based diets.
This is a good question. I didn’t see climate change as threatening enough to affect factory farming a lot but I haven’t thought about it much.
I think the question is more salient with work on global catastrophic risks : is it risky to stop pandemics, AI risks and nuclear wars when by doing that we are responsible for allowing factory farming to continue for a long time ? Unless we think that the future is going to be super positive (with factory farming ending) I think there’s quite a risk here.
In any case, a way to perform mitigation on a way that also reduces farmed animal suffering is plant-based diets.