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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.
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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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Probably gotta go where the people are. Twitter has this:
https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/spaces
plus there’s a new EA group there.
What is the new EA group called… can’t find it.
https://twitter.com/i/communities/1492420299450724353
But that is not the same thing as a “space”. This seems like something that categorises Twitter posts but it’s not the place that permits audio discussions.
To do that I guess we will have to start a space. Maybe I will do it?
Ok testing it out now. Someone join so we can see how it works?
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1jMJgeqbYXbKL
Okay it worked and it was pretty fun. We discussed apple butter and other stuff.
Will have to look into the terms and conditions, but it will be great if we could find someone (nonlinear??) who would keep this, or something like this open 24/7.
Or maybe it’s just a permanently open zoom call?
Thank you. I hope to try it and report back, especially considering whether it works for hands-free