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[โ€“] spittingimage 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What are the most cost-efficient ways?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Iirc, micronutrients and HIV prevention, followed by preventing malaria. The idea is that we spend a little money now, to make many people grow up and be healthy, which avoids big costs to societies while at the same time generating people who can contribute more to the same societies. Many people want to solve the climate first, but it's very expensive for very little return. In an ideal world we would solve all the problems, but... we don't. So if we have limited resources, we should spend it where it does most long-term good. It's not a bad idea to do good things for the climate, but if we have to choose between things to do, it gives little benefit per dollar compared to other things.