About 3. Priority areas
Effective altruism (EA) is an ongoing project to find the best ways to do good, and put them into practice.
This series of articles will introduce you to some of the core thinking tools behind effective altruism, share some of the arguments about which global problems are most pressing, and help you to reflect on how you personally can contribute.
In the previous part, we went through a framework for analyzing the problems within which you have the opportunity to make the biggest difference – problems that are big,
Pandemics have affected humanity throughout the ages and history has shown how devastating they can be.
Nuclear weapons have the potential to kill hundreds of millions of people directly.
Every year, 50 billion animals are raised and slaughtered in highly intensive food production, factory farming.
Governments and other important institutions regularly need to make complex,