The argument of EA is closer to: doing more of the things that currently feed 95% of the world is the way to feed 100%.
How do you know it's not doing more of the things that currently leave 5% without food?
Re:Effective altruism is not effective
by imtringued on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:52AM
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>The argument of EA is closer to: doing more of the things that currently feed 95% of the world is the way to feed 100%.
That is purely a political choice. Just grow the food supply faster than the population. Most developed countries have solved this on the population side. If every EU country had 0.5 - 1 billion people all of them would run into food problems.
By actually looking at how food gets produced.
So this is not a general property of EA, but only true for this field, as verified by a domain expert?
How is it "the thing", unless "the thing" is supposed to be, what, people using common sense? And how is it "the thing that causes these problems" when those problems are the natural state of being? People don't have food by default, people don't have housing by default, the huge amount of food being produced these days is in no way the state of nature. The argument of EA is closer to: doing more of the things that currently feed 95% of the world is the way to feed 100%.