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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EA is (again) having a moment:
The usual suspects are in the trenches fighting the good fight, but this is a great time for EAs to take some comms action. An example I particularly loved was @Andres Jimenez Zorrilla 🔸 's post on LinkedIn and Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andres-jimenez-zorrilla_im-a-longtime-effective-altruist-and-the-share-7512717228480413696-7Y_k/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAINuQ8BRM6_FTbj8vR-viYZrP0S2TPoUEg
This is the sort of collective action problem that EAs think is some other EA's responsibility and comms isn't our traditional strong suit, but I'd love to see more EAs in the arena here, posting about their experiences, posting their arguments, or talking to friends and family about why these ideas matter.