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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...
This post presents the executive summary from Giving What We Can’s impact evaluation for 2025. At the end of this post we share links to more information, including the full report and...
Thanks for the list. I was excited to see engineering as a category, but then I found out it actually means software engineering. It would be very helpful to other types of engineers if EAs would specify software engineering if that's what they mean. There are opportunities for the other types of engineering within EA, including plant-based and clean meat, climate change and food for catastrophes, with a number of effective theses here.
It isn't meant to mean software engineering, but all engineering. Unfortunately, aside from the FB group I made, I wasn't aware of any other EA materials and resources for engineers other than specifically for software engineering.
Great to hear the Facebook group is inclusive!