There could also be some overlap in helping developing countries reduce their birth rates, e.g. contracepitve availability, young female education, etc. This could increase per capita gdp, decrease child mortality and improve other metrics, without increasing total meat consumption exponentially. Perhaps this could be more of a focus area in EA.
I agree that family planning could become a new EA focus area. There is a facebook group to discuss family planning charities from a EA perspective. Giving What We Can has a great blog post on research around adolescent pregnancy. Development Media International is conducting a RCT to test whether radio programs can create demand for family planning.
Relevant: Repugnant Interventions, a great talk by Hilary Graves about how it’s plausibly inconsistent to support both life-saving interventions and family planning.
There could also be some overlap in helping developing countries reduce their birth rates, e.g. contracepitve availability, young female education, etc. This could increase per capita gdp, decrease child mortality and improve other metrics, without increasing total meat consumption exponentially. Perhaps this could be more of a focus area in EA.
I agree that family planning could become a new EA focus area. There is a facebook group to discuss family planning charities from a EA perspective. Giving What We Can has a great blog post on research around adolescent pregnancy. Development Media International is conducting a RCT to test whether radio programs can create demand for family planning.
Relevant: Repugnant Interventions, a great talk by Hilary Graves about how it’s plausibly inconsistent to support both life-saving interventions and family planning.
Both AMF and family planning improve lives, so in that sense they are compatible.
To the people who downvote us here (or perhaps just one guy with 2 accounts):
Feel free to provide actual constructive criticism. Or solve the problem of global poverty, child mortality, and animal suffering on your own.