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Comment author: gjm 10 July 2014 07:56:41AM 1 point [-]

What, that's close to nothing!

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.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 July 2014 02:01:03PM *  0 points [-]

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.