EA Talks EAG 2019 SF: Climate change deaths increase the social cost of carbon (R. Daniel Bressler)
Popular models for the effects of climate change human welfare usually focus on its long-term economic impacts — but often leave out its impact on human mortality.
R. Daniel Bressler, a PhD candidate in Columbia University’s Sustainable Development program, extended one such model to include mortality costs, and found that this significantly increased the model’s estimate for the welfare consequences of climate change. In this academic session, he discusses this work, and explains how a similar approach could help us model welfare costs for global catastrophic risks like nuclear war and pandemics.
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This talk was filmed at EA Global 2019: San Francisco. You can learn more about these conferences at eaglobal.org.
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