Interesting idea! Thanks for sharing it :)
I realised that there are some points in this reasoning that are not clear to me:
How would protecting large herbivores reduce the population of animals with high reproduction rates?
What would be the impact on insects?
Iâm surprised to read this. Although an important part of their job is thinking, some of those figures have founded organisations like Giving What We Can, 80,000 hours or GiveWell, which is actually (a lot of) doing. Also, pledging to donate at least 10% of their income until they retire, thus saving several lives and helping thousands of people by preventing that they get terrible diseases is âimproving the world directlyâ rather than thinking. (Although that impact is probably neglegible compared what they achieved in other ways, it is still a lot of good).