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Will MacAskill on Creating Lasting Change

The Daily Stoic

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Climate Change Science and Climate Action

The first quantitative estimate of the warming you get from carbon dioxide was in 1896 by Svantarinias and his estimate was actually pretty good it was a little on the high side but it's pretty close to the modern scientific consensus estimate. Bill McKibben one of the world's leading environmentalists who draw us exactly this lesson says we really need to be concerned about AI which is just amazing for him to do because he's saying look the thing you don't realize is that change happens very fast. The practice of momentum or the meditation on death is one of the most powerful and eye-opening things that there is. You can check it out at dailystoke.com slash mm calendar.

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