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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...
Recent opportunities to take action
Chek out Maya Mathur’s slides on the state of nudging research: https://osf.io/encd5
I also wrote a recent meta-analysis of MAP reduction research that identifies some high-quality RCTs as well as collates some prior systematic reviews: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/k9qqGZtmWz3x4yaaA/environmental-and-health-appeals-are-the-most-effective
From a moral philosophy/psychology perspective, check out Lucius Caviola at Harvard or Eric Schwitzgebel : http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/
These aren’t exactly syllabi, but I think that between these researchers you’ll be able to put something nice together.
I would be obliged to see the final product when you have one!