AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
“How long have you been v*g*n?”
This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It’s a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers.
But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the sp...
Summary
Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
Recently, I've seen plenty of movements aimed at saving soil. Their primary concerns seem to revolve around some UN-supported reports which have claimed:
'One-third of the planet's productive soil has been lost in the last 40 years'
'At the current rate of erosion, the Earth would lose all its productive soil within 60 years.'
'Every 5 seconds, we lose the soil equivalent of one soccer field'
If these reports are true, this qualifies as a major x risk. However, I have not seen anything about it in EA.
If anyone here has some knowledge of the issue, can you brief me regarding it?
I also wish to know whether or not the EA has its eyes on it.
I googled it and found: "These claims are overblown, but soil erosion is a problem and we can do something about it." https://ourworldindata.org/soil-lifespans
Thanks for the reply. Looks like this article is speaking facts.