The list is here:
Global warming—human caused climate change.
Extinction—mass die-offs caused by global warming and habitat changes.
Deforestation—loss of primary and secondary forests.
Ocean acidification—rise in ocean acidity due to rising CO2.
Dead zones—large areas of the ocean that can’t support life.
Water crisis—drawdowns in aquifers and freshwater supplies.
Peak oil—the decline in the availability of oil as an energy source.
It looks like a conventional “confused environmentalist” prioritisation to me.
I would council caution before attempting to drag conventional environmentalists into the fray.
They usually just want to slam on the brakes—and the historical effects of that look mostly negative to me—take the case of GM crops, for example.
Yudkowsky even advocated a “stealth” approach once:
if we can make it all the way to Singularity without it ever becoming a “public policy” issue, I think maybe we should.
http://yudkowsky.net/obsolete/plan.html#strat_meme
I like GM crops.
The list is here:
Global warming—human caused climate change.
Extinction—mass die-offs caused by global warming and habitat changes.
Deforestation—loss of primary and secondary forests.
Ocean acidification—rise in ocean acidity due to rising CO2.
Dead zones—large areas of the ocean that can’t support life.
Water crisis—drawdowns in aquifers and freshwater supplies.
Peak oil—the decline in the availability of oil as an energy source.
It looks like a conventional “confused environmentalist” prioritisation to me.
I would council caution before attempting to drag conventional environmentalists into the fray.
They usually just want to slam on the brakes—and the historical effects of that look mostly negative to me—take the case of GM crops, for example.
Yudkowsky even advocated a “stealth” approach once:
http://yudkowsky.net/obsolete/plan.html#strat_meme
I like GM crops.