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An effective altruist would be concerned with both. And if a few million people die because an issue like climate change, that represents billions of unborn lives over a relatively short time span. So it is absolutely a concern worth spending time on right now, today
EA is about prioritizing costs & benefits. I would love to see more comparative analyses on net expected long-term utility from managing global warming (e.g. with geoengineering) vs. reducing nuke risk, bioweapon risk, AI risk, etc.
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I don't totally disagree but I think the potential for climate change to create negative outcomes (including nuclear war) is greater in the short- and medium-term. Rather than looking at these issues in a comparative sense, I think we should looking at them in a continuous sense.
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And by that, I mean looking at root causes.
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How does one 'manage' a complex system?
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