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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...
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Ray Dalio is offering 10,000 free $100 charity girtcards to the first people who sign up.
https://twitter.com/RayDalio/status/1334543462063104001?s=19
https://redefinegifting.tisbest.org/
Max $100k per charity
This is full, but it's worth getting people to subscribe for the future
I absolutely agree. 20 minutes ago Ray Dalio just Tweeted:
Naively I'd estimate a ~30% chance that people who sign up within the next 24 hours receive a $100 gift card to donate.
Open again for 20k people at $50 each.
https://redefinegifting2021.tisbest.org/
20,000 more $50 Charity Gift Cards were made available at 1 PM EST today. Will probably be gone by 2-4 PM EST today, so anyone reading this before then sign up now: https://redefinegifting.tisbest.org/