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Climate Change Is Worse Than Factory Farming — EA Forum

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Why global warming is plausibly the worst thing ever.

Tejas Subramaniam 🔸 1y * 62 11 1 Brian Tomasik considers more selection toward animals with faster life histories in his piece on the effects of climate change on wild animals. He seems to think it‘s not decisive (and ends up concluding that he’s basically 50–50 on the sign of the effects of climate change on overall animal suffering) for ~three reasons (paraphrasing Tomasik): Some of the animals with slower life histories which get replaced are often carnivorous/omnivorous, which might mean climate change decreases invertebrate populations. Instability might also affect plants, which could l

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