Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)
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A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, designed to bring you up to speed on ten pressing issues the effective altruism community is working to solve.
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A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, designed to bring you up to speed on ten pressing issues the effective altruism community is working to solve.
Nine: Dave Denkenberger on feeding the world through catastrophes
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)
2 hours 56 minutes
4 years ago
Nine: Dave Denkenberger on feeding the world through catastrophes
Dr Denkenberger is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and he’s out to spread the word that while a nuclear winter might be horrible, experts have been mistaken to assume that mass starvation is an inevitability. In fact, he says, the only thing that would prevent us from feeding the world is insufficient preparation.
Dave was the natural choice to introduce the problem of feeding the world through catastrophes.
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)
A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, designed to bring you up to speed on ten pressing issues the effective altruism community is working to solve.
