Climate Change Is Worse Than Factory Farming — EA Forum

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

related reading

• Climate Change Is Worse Than Factory Farmingstatesofexception.substack.com
• If You're Going To Eat Animals, Eat Beef and Dairy — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• Essays on Reducing Sufferingreducing-suffering.org
• Climate change | 80,000 Hours80000hours.org
• What AI could mean for animals — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view.worrydream.com
• Does climate change deserve more attention within EA? — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• Animal advocates should respond to transformative AI maybe arriving soon — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• How much current animal suffering does longtermism let us ignore? — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• Would Extinction be so Bad? | Practical Ethicsblog.uehiro.ox.ac.uk
• Crop Cultivation and Wild Animalsreducing-suffering.org
• The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org