What 99% of people don't know about Wild Animals

By Jack Hancock-Fairs @ 2024-12-08T20:26 (+52)

Earlier this year I gave a talk on wild animal suffering at the International Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg. Hopefully this can serve as a decent introduction to the issue. It also has much better audio and visual quality than previous talks I've given on this topic, which will hopefully make a difference to how the video performs on YouTube over time. 

I would be happy to receive feedback on the content and/or the performance of this talk from people who are interested enough to watch it :)


 

Paradox @ 2024-12-09T12:25 (+4)

Hey Jack. I've always loved your content and was obsessively consuming in Lockdown. I've learnt a lot from you I try to follow your and Alex's style in conversations and hold similar values. The speech is great (I watched it on YouTube this morning, and now saw the post here). 

If at all you want to change something, you may experiment with other ways of giving perspective around the hugeness of the numbers. Comparison is not always realisable to people who aren't into basketball. I know this is quibbling but I can't find any other point to give suggestions on. 

Needless to say, you're doing a great work. Keep it up, man.

AnonymousTurtle @ 2024-12-09T09:56 (+4)

Amazing talk!

Is it the same as last year's The Vegan Blindspot talk? Or were there any updates besides removing mentions of "vegans" to appeal to a more general audience?

I can't find the original anymore but it seems very similar to what I remember.

Curious about your theory of change. Is the idea to fundraise for Wild Animal Initiative, to encourage people to work on wild animal suffering, or something else?

Pascal Costa @ 2024-12-10T10:41 (+2)

Heya, 

Congrats for this talk, I've found it very convincing. There is a really good balance between the argumentative side and the emotional one. 

A few ideas that could potentially improve it:


- Maybe you can imagine some ways to make it more participative, by asking people intuition about one case on an other for instance. 
- When you explain some arguments, it goes quite fast. Maybe it can be hard to follow for someone who does not know a lot about WAS. Two ways to potentially improve it: 1- make a recap at the end with the main arguments 2- When you explain something hard put the structure on your ppw. 
Nonetheless, it is likely that insisting to much on the argumentative approach affects the balance emotion/argument of your presentation.
- As the end of the presentation, you feel chocked/depressed, maybe it could help to offer to audience easy ways to contribue at their scale: donate to X or Y charity// Put some water on their balcony// Volunteer for X or Y charity// Probably far better advices than I'm giving.

Hope it can help, congrats again for the quality of your work.