>> To be clear, the reason I think this is a more convincing argument in climate than in many other causes is (a) the vastness of societal and philanthropic climate attention and (b) it’s very predictable brokenness, with climate philanthropy and climate action more broadly generally “captured” by one particular vision of solving the problem (mainstream environmentalism, see qualification below).
Vast attention is the mechanism that causes popular causes to usually have lower ROI on the margin; i.e. some of all that attention is likely competent.
I’m not sure what other causes you have in mind here. I think the argument with your two conditions applies equally well to large philanthropic areas like education, poverty/homelessness, and art.
>> It seems to me that consistency would require that we should assume other climate grants can meet the OP bar as well
Absolutely, I agree they can. Do you publish your cost effectiveness estimates?
>> To be clear, the reason I think this is a more convincing argument in climate than in many other causes is (a) the vastness of societal and philanthropic climate attention and (b) it’s very predictable brokenness, with climate philanthropy and climate action more broadly generally “captured” by one particular vision of solving the problem (mainstream environmentalism, see qualification below).
Vast attention is the mechanism that causes popular causes to usually have lower ROI on the margin; i.e. some of all that attention is likely competent.
I’m not sure what other causes you have in mind here. I think the argument with your two conditions applies equally well to large philanthropic areas like education, poverty/homelessness, and art.
>> It seems to me that consistency would require that we should assume other climate grants can meet the OP bar as well
Absolutely, I agree they can. Do you publish your cost effectiveness estimates?