From a vlogbrothers video by Hank Green comes the most EA-flavored framing from a non-EA I've ever seen. In the following quote from the video he's referencing the work done by Partners in Health and supported by the YouTube community that exists around him, his brother John Green, and the work they do. More information on that project is in another recent video.
I think about this in the context of this community's work in Sierra Leone: already fewer women are dying in childbirth, and that victory is so quiet.
If 3,000 women in West Africa were trapped in a fallen building, there would be international news stories about it; there would be outcry to save them. But if 30,000 women each have a 10% chance of dying in childbirth that's the same 3,000 deaths. But due to, I think, just the way the human mind works, we are incapable of seeing that as the same kind of catastrophe, and as fixing it as the same kind of heroism. [emphasis mine]
We need to get way better at accepting the miracle of things that didn't happen, because that's where some of humanity's greatest victories are hiding. And if we don't understand that the things that didn't happen, they might very well begin happening again.
I put 2 comments on that video that unfortunately haven't gotten many upvotesโฆ
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I think YouTube might be shadowbanning me for using UNICODE bold ยฏ\_ (ใ)_/ยฏ