80,000 Hours Podcast
If you want to work to tackle climate change, you should try to reduce expected carbon emissions by as much as possible, right? Strangely, no.
Today's guest, Johannes Ackva — the climate research lead at Founders Pledge, where he advises major philanthropists on their giving — thinks the best strategy is actually pretty different, and one few are adopting.
In reality you don't want to reduce emissions for its own sake, but because emissions will translate into temperature increases, which will cause harm to people and the environment.
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