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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Climate Change and Animal Welfare Are Getting Worse

There are clear arguments for why factory farming is really bad, and climate change s on the horizon. And yet both problems are getting worse. So you might think that's a reason to worry that humanity won't get wise. It could be. But i do think that these are cases where so at least they get half way to the arguments that you can have things that become part of common sense morality within a generation.

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