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Here's another compilation we put together for our team's work on helping people found longtermist projects: [public] A rough list of ideas for scalable longtermist projects.
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This is the third in a sequence of posts taken from my recent report: Why Did Environmentalism Become Partisan?
Summary
Rising partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular or politically effective. Instead, it saw flat or falling overall public opinion, fewer major legislative achievements, and fluctuating executive actions.
Public Opinion...
I think right now EAs might be making a significant mistake by paying insufficient attention to the political realm. As EAs we tend to figure out what’s most impactful for us to work on and focus hard. That’s great! But there are various actions that are ‘non-delegatable’ - the extent to which an individual can do the action is limited (like voting, going to a protest, making hard money contributions to particular campaigns). It might be useful if we were all more in the habit of doing variou...
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There are three good topic pages that related to this (note that it looks like not all the posts above have been tagged with the topics listed below that are relevant for those posts):
I also think the Opportunity Board is really useful.
Good point, it also reminded me to add the tags to the main text of this post as another tip for where to look. Thank you!