
Eight: Mark Lynas on climate change
A golf-ball sized lump of uranium can deliver more than enough power to cover all your lifetime energy use. To get the same energy from coal, you’d need 3,200 tonnes of the stuff — a mass equivalent t...
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Nine: Dave Denkenberger on feeding the world through catastrophes
If a nuclear winter or asteroid impact blocked the sun for years, our inability to grow food would result in billions dying of starvation, right? According to Dr Dave Denkenberger, co-author of Feedin...
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Ten: Persis Eskander on wild animal suffering
Most animals are hunted by predators, and constantly have to remain vigilant lest they be killed, and perhaps experience the terror of being eaten alive. Resource competition often leads to chronic hu...
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What's next
Now you've finished Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems, here's what we suggest you do next.And if you’ve listened to this series and found the ideas resonated with you, our one-on-one team might ...
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