Serious question. I’m speaking to college students next week. Suppose that instead of dissipating their energy on phantom causes (e.g. rape culture, or fighting “fascists” like me) they organized to change the world for the better. What are one or two causes they should pursue?
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Fantastic source. Thank you!
http://Givewell.org has a list of empirically supported, highly cost-effective charities that do: - Malaria prevention interventions - Deworming/vitamin A supplements (to prevent blindness) - Microloans & cash transfers to the global poor https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities …
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Also, when talking to students, I think it's *really* wonderful to discourage uninformed armchair activism & encourage them to commit to an educational deep-dive that can provide a rigorous, self-scrutinizing scientific understanding of the problems they'd like to work on solving
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Good stuff. Even better than vitamin A supplements, urge them to push back against anti-GMO ludditism. Greenpeace et al. are opposing the rollout of "golden rice" which could cheaply reduce the 670,000 annual under age 5 deaths (and more blindness) from vitamin A deficiencies.
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