If the most effective charities can save a life for $2k, that’s enough to save 100k lives/year. But of course there are plenty of other things it’s small in comparison to; I mentioned a couple of relevant ones.
improving land at higher elevations
I think this is likely to be a much smaller effect. The great majority of land is no more than ~1000m above sea level.
If the most effective charities can save a life for $2k, that’s enough to save 100k lives/year.
The most effective charities can save a life for $2k today (where by “today” I mean ‘a couple years ago’) because there’s lots of low-hanging fruit, but I doubt this will continue to apply much longer.
If the most effective charities can save a life for $2k, that’s enough to save 100k lives/year. But of course there are plenty of other things it’s small in comparison to; I mentioned a couple of relevant ones.
I think this is likely to be a much smaller effect. The great majority of land is no more than ~1000m above sea level.
The most effective charities can save a life for $2k today (where by “today” I mean ‘a couple years ago’) because there’s lots of low-hanging fruit, but I doubt this will continue to apply much longer.