Climate change is one of the most popular global concerns today. However, according to the principles of Effective Altruism, a philosophical and social movement that applies reason and evidence to philanthropy, climate change should not be our top global priority.
This phrasing makes it sounds like you’re saying, “Normal people would think climate change is important, but if you’re a weirdo who holds these ‘effective altruist’ values, then you don’t think it’s important.” But your actual claim is more like, “According to normal people’s values, climate change isn’t as important as they think because they’re empirically wrong about how bad it will be.” I would remove the reference to EA from the abstract, although I think it’s fine to keep it in the first section as an explanation for why you started thinking about the impact of climate change.
This phrasing makes it sounds like you’re saying, “Normal people would think climate change is important, but if you’re a weirdo who holds these ‘effective altruist’ values, then you don’t think it’s important.” But your actual claim is more like, “According to normal people’s values, climate change isn’t as important as they think because they’re empirically wrong about how bad it will be.” I would remove the reference to EA from the abstract, although I think it’s fine to keep it in the first section as an explanation for why you started thinking about the impact of climate change.
I see what you mean, and it definitely warrants rephrasing. Thank you for taking the time out to comment :)