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EA Global Melbourne: Philosophy and Effective Altruism Panel (Hilary Greaves, Peter Singer, Justin Oakley, and David Pearce)

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Is It a Good Idea to Donate to a Family Planning Programme?

altraism sometimes criticized for focusing on incremental change and not on systematic change. Can i follow up? Because it's interesting that you one of the options was continuing to donate to a m f. It wasn't continuing to donations to family planning programmes. So does that suggest that you don't believe the sort of ne malthusian problems about population, about the dangers of larger population? Another option you might consider is just donating later. I think what you're saying is a variant on my third suggestion. Maybe our not, in the meantime, ploughing your money to research, but you're hoping that somebody else will do that. Or worse, it's a distraction from what

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