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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Climate Change

With climate change it seems that there's also a pretty reasonable viewpoint, which is that it's very intractable. Even despite all ef people marching on the streets, you can still see that thes kind of governments are really dragging their heels on it. So i'm not really sure ow how it shakes down over all, but it's, i'm open to the idea. I guess the best case for it being a hot buttond political issue was if we thought they were like tipping points, or like, if you could just do thi small thing, then that would really set in motion. But i think that better characterization of the chance of extreme warming and better understanding about

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