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Mo­ral offsetting

TagLast edit: 2 Feb 2022 21:26 UTC by Pablo

Moral offsetting (sometimes called ethical offsetting) is the practice of undoing wrongs caused in one area by donating to charities working in those areas or engaging in other relevant acts of altruism.

Further reading

Alexander, Scott (2015) Ethics offsets, Slate Star Codex, January 4.

Foerster, Thomas (2019) Moral offsetting, The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 69, pp. 617–635.

Foerster, Thomas (2019) Moral offsetting bibliography, Vacchablogga, March 3.

Levy, Neil (2015) Moral offsetting, Practical Ethics, January 7.

Zabel, Claire (2016) Ethical offsetting is antithetical to EA, Effective Altruism Forum, January 5.

Hedg­ing against deep and moral uncertainty

MichaelStJules12 Sep 2020 23:44 UTC
83 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

Eth­i­cal offset­ting is an­ti­thet­i­cal to EA

ClaireZabel5 Jan 2016 17:49 UTC
43 points
78 comments3 min readEA link

Is offset­ting Co2 still a thing /​ a thing again?

André Kirschner15 Apr 2024 20:56 UTC
2 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Scott Alexan­der – Ax­iol­ogy, Mo­ral­ity, Law

Tessa A 🔸28 Aug 2016 15:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Sim­ple char­i­ta­ble dona­tion app idea

kokotajlod12 May 2023 2:11 UTC
88 points
23 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How much money donated and to where (in the space of an­i­mal wellbe­ing) would “can­cel out” the harm from leas­ing a com­mer­cial build­ing to a restau­rant that pre­sum­ably uses fac­tory farmed an­i­mals?

spreadlove568323 Aug 2021 19:53 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

The moral prob­lem of offsetting

Yatlas15 Nov 2022 20:02 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

I donated $35 to offset my car­bon foot­print for this year

Luke Eure3 Dec 2023 9:46 UTC
40 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Dona­tion offsets for ChatGPT Plus subscriptions

Jeffrey Ladish16 Mar 2023 23:11 UTC
76 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Don’t sweat diet?

Gregory Lewis🔸22 Oct 2015 20:15 UTC
18 points
41 comments5 min readEA link

At what cost, car­nivory?

Gregory Lewis🔸29 Oct 2015 23:37 UTC
12 points
13 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Recom­men­da­tions for char­i­ties for an­i­mal suffer­ing offsets?

rajlego22 Aug 2023 14:35 UTC
22 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Offset­ting is more ex­pen­sive than it’s assumed

emre kaplan🔸28 Feb 2024 9:16 UTC
21 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Car­bon Offsets as an Non-Altru­is­tic Expense

Davidmanheim3 Dec 2019 11:38 UTC
25 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

How can I in­ter­nal­ize my most im­pact­ful nega­tive ex­ter­nal­ities?

rhys_lindmark17 Jan 2019 5:38 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Re­search help CO2 offset­ting/​com­pen­sa­tion pro­grams: How to eval­u­ate them for im­pact? Alter­na­tives to car­bon offset­ting? etc.

Marek Veneny27 Apr 2022 8:24 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some re­spon­si­bil­ity bun­dle bar­gains for medium-sized en­ter­prises?

brb24310 Jan 2022 19:38 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Covid offsets and car­bon offsets

Ben23 Jul 2020 21:19 UTC
22 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The case for offset­ting meat consumption

Ariel Pontes8 Dec 2022 10:22 UTC
12 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(arielpontes.medium.com)

How much dona­tions are needed to neu­tral­ise the an­nual x-risk foot­print of the mean hu­man?

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Sep 2022 6:41 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Launch­ing 60,000,000,000 Chick­ens: A Give Well-Style CEA Spread­sheet for An­i­mal Welfare

AppliedDivinityStudies4 Jun 2021 21:08 UTC
35 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Meat Externalities

Richard Y Chappell🔸11 Jul 2022 3:23 UTC
80 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)