Thank you for taking a stab at analyzing pest control interventions!
Pesticides differ widely in their impact on non-target wildlife, including widespread, painful, sub-lethal effects. I think that these impacts should be included when ranking pesticides by welfare footprint.
Thanks for the comment, and welcome to the EA Forum, Katrina! Great point. I speculated the effects on target species make cost-effectiveness 50 % as large[1], but I have little idea about how accurate this is, and which pesticides achieve a better combination between effects on target and non-target species. I assume WAI is doing research which can inform this.
Thank you for taking a stab at analyzing pest control interventions!
Pesticides differ widely in their impact on non-target wildlife, including widespread, painful, sub-lethal effects. I think that these impacts should be included when ranking pesticides by welfare footprint.
Thanks for the comment, and welcome to the EA Forum, Katrina! Great point. I speculated the effects on target species make cost-effectiveness 50 % as large[1], but I have little idea about how accurate this is, and which pesticides achieve a better combination between effects on target and non-target species. I assume WAI is doing research which can inform this.
This can be thought of as the mean of a uniform distribution ranging from −0.5 to 1.5.