Possibly dumb question, but does anybody actually care if climate change (or related issues like biodiversity) will be good or bad for wild animal welfare?
I feel like a lot of people argue this as a given, but the actual answer relies on getting the right call on some pretty hard empirical questions. I think answering or at least getting some clarity on this question is not impossible, but I don’t know if anybody actually cares in a decision-relevant way (like I don’t think WAW people will switch to climate change if we’re pretty sure climate change is bad for WAW, and I don’t think climate change vegans will switch careers or donations to farmed animal welfare or wild animal welfare if we are pretty sure climate change is good for WAW).
If your suspicion is correct, then that’s pretty damning for the WAW movement, unless climate change prevention is not the highest-leverage influence against WAS (a priori, it seems unlikely that climate change prevention would have the highest positive influence).
I’ve read his post on this before. I think this question is substantively easier for heavy SFE-biased views, especially if you pair it with some other beliefs Brian has.
that’s pretty damning for the WAW movement, unless climate change prevention is not the highest-leverage influence against WAS (a priori, it seems unlikely that climate change prevention would have the highest positive influence).
I read it as more damming for climate change people for what it’s worth, or at least the ones who claim to be doing it for the animals.
Possibly dumb question, but does anybody actually care if climate change (or related issues like biodiversity) will be good or bad for wild animal welfare?
I feel like a lot of people argue this as a given, but the actual answer relies on getting the right call on some pretty hard empirical questions. I think answering or at least getting some clarity on this question is not impossible, but I don’t know if anybody actually cares in a decision-relevant way (like I don’t think WAW people will switch to climate change if we’re pretty sure climate change is bad for WAW, and I don’t think climate change vegans will switch careers or donations to farmed animal welfare or wild animal welfare if we are pretty sure climate change is good for WAW).
I think at least Brian Tomasik cares about this.
If your suspicion is correct, then that’s pretty damning for the WAW movement, unless climate change prevention is not the highest-leverage influence against WAS (a priori, it seems unlikely that climate change prevention would have the highest positive influence).
I’ve read his post on this before. I think this question is substantively easier for heavy SFE-biased views, especially if you pair it with some other beliefs Brian has.
I read it as more damming for climate change people for what it’s worth, or at least the ones who claim to be doing it for the animals.