This piece is beautiful, inspiring, and deeply emotionally resonant for me. @naina_bajekal is an exceptional writer; she's created a deep and nuanced piece that perfectly captures the essence of effective altruism, as I feel it in my heart and my bones.
... unless we’ve used up all fossil fuels. The only other detailed treatment of civilisational recovery I know of is this excellent piece by @lewis_dartnell, which unfortunately concludes that reindustrialisation without fossil fuels would be difficult:
And I'd love to see more deep, constructive critical engagement like @michael_nielsen's recent essay. So it comes at a good time that, if you want to critically engage with widely-held beliefs in the EA community, there's now a prize you can win!
