Journalist and media studies professor, virtual communities consultant, climate change, urban planning and transit activist
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A note on OPISâmight I suggest finding a way to separate your work on animal suffering from that on human sufferingâat least for potential funders? Of course I can understand that you see work on both as important but there will be potential donors/âsupporters (myself included) who would be very inclined to support your advocacy work on easing provision of opioids for humans but who donât see the relief of animal suffering as a priority and who would not wish their support for one to be used for the other.
I applaud you for your initiative in taking this forward and I do think you seem to have identified an important gap in the existing EA approaches. They appear to see lives saved as the key metric where I would at least offer potential donors/âactors the chance to prioritise life quality. I wonder, however (and apologies if this has already been discussed and consideredâif it has please point me to it) whether it might not be still more cost-effective to target easily cured very painful illnesses like Trachoma. See this for example: https://ââwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ââpubmed/ââ16019692 which finds providing surgery costs from I$13 to I$78 per DALY averted.
And moreover it doesnât just improve vision, it removes a source of intense pain.