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Nine: Dave Denkenberger on feeding the world through catastrophes

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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How Much Would It Cost to Save a Life With Mosquito Bed Nets?

In the case of cost for a life saved, even though the variation was four orders of magnitude, it still really didn't overlap with the estimates of saving lives with mosquito bed nets. So you can actually saywith some confidence, if you believe in the inputs, that this would be better a sise of the high end in this paper looks like it was a 400 as perper life saved. And so here you can easily spend billions of dollars, because it involves lots of people,. and it's actually, you know, maybe even periodically every year or something, running, running drills.

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