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...
Hi!
We'll be holding rounds of "introduction to EA" talks in Sweden this summer. Does anyone know if there are scripts and/or slides (in English, or alternatively in Swedish, if available) that have already been developed that we could go off of? And is there someone here with experience with giving introductory talks that would be willing to give some tips and pointers? Would be super appreciated!
Hello! The EA Hub has some scripts and slides in English: https://resources.eahub.org/events/intro/
Try contacting a staff member from the Groups Team, e.g. Catherine Low, for tips and pointers: https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/team/
Brilliant, thanks so much Michael!
And you could try looking around in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ATRWGcN3GLouaWJIa6Za3xbLe5nuk0CQHhwhsBLTDvA/edit#gid=0
Thank you Kevin, I wasn't aware of that document, that's really helpful!
There is this talk that was delivered to TEDxGöteborg: