I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
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Over the course of a year, the Fieldshaper program develops you into a field-leading grantmaker. You’ll steward $1,000,000 in grant capital, receive a $125,000 annual stipend, and deploy that capital within a sub-field of one of three key areas (farmed animals, global health, or philanthropic infrastructure); building the track record to become a grantmaker who can shape a field.
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Karnofsky wrote recently about spreading messages:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CcJsh4JcxEqYDaSte/spreading-messages-to-help-with-the-most-important-century
I also want to take this opportunity to list some of the things I’d like to communicate with the masses. In no particular order:
I've written about these in more detail here:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sd3xnALnB8EkgkvFc/aligning-self-interest-with-survival-and-thriving
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/WdkfjWZiBnLjc7Geg/technology-is-power-raising-awareness-of-technological-risks
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7srarHqktkHTBDYLq/bringing-out-the-best-in-humanity