Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook239 pages3 hours
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
By Peter Singer
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
For the first time in history, eradicating world poverty is within our reach. Yet around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for bottled water. In The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer uses ethical arguments, illuminating examples, and case studies of charitable giving to show that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but morally indefensible. The Life You Can Save teaches us to be a part of the solution, helping others as we help ourselves.
Unavailable
Author
Peter Singer
Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the University of Melbourne’s School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. The most prominent ethicist of our time, he is the author of more than twenty books, including Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, and The Life You Can Save. Singer divides his time between New York City and Melbourne, Australia.
Read more from Peter Singer
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writings on an Ethical Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/510th Anniversary Edition The Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Death of the Animal: A Dialogue Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEthics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to The Life You Can Save
Related ebooks
The Age of Ageing Better?: A Manifesto For Our Future Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSimple Living: Building Your Ark: How to Survive and Prosper in Uncertain Times Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHealth Is The First Condition Of Happiness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLower Than That Of Cleanstown Residents Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSystem vs. Creator: Make the System Work for You Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew American Culture Race Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDid Everything But Think: D.E.B.T. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/510 Major Events No One Saw Coming Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDemocracy & Global Social Issues Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Complaints, No Outbursts, Poverty Is Not Voluntary.: “An Immigrant Perspective on Social Injustice and Social Inequality” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOnly Two Ways Left Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Message Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBefore We Become Extinct Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEconomic Crisis: A Practical Guide to Nixing Anxiety Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUplift and Empower: A Guide to Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaybe One: A Personal and Evironmental Argument for Single Child Families Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Choice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBegging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Catalyst: A Collection of Commentaries to Get Us Talking Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrimal Ethics: What Our Kids Are Taught In School And Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHuman Ignorance: From A to Z Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRewarding Behaviour Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings50 Campaigns to Shout About Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsActually Thinking Vs. Just Believing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTHE WORLD OF THE POOR: How people chose and perpetuate poverty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Benefit of Benefits: Zen Tips To Happiness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReinventing Capitalism: How we broke Money and how we fix it, from inside and out Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife: Its Problems and Some of Its Unanswerable Questions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Public Policy For You
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Affluent Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chasing the Scream: The Inspiration for the Feature Film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capital in the Twenty-First Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Men without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5America: The Farewell Tour Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Abolition of Sex: How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Episode 327: Income in a Shifting Economy: Living Free in Tennessee 0% found this document usefulEpisode 109--'Life when the answer is no' ,My interview with Kate Kaufmann: Childless not by Choice 0% found this document usefulEpisode 437: What Really Matters?: Living Free in Tennessee 0% found this document usefulShow #112: Dr John Demartini - Achieving goals by your highest value 0% found this document usefulFood Banks - Are They Helping or Hurting Us? 0% found this document usefulEpisode 441: Best Lesson From The 2020 Pandemic: Living Free in Tennessee 0% found this document usefulSuckituptitude: The antithesis of victimhood, anti-American culture 0% found this document usefulDid the Pandemic Change Personal Finance? #632 0% found this document usefulObservations about the Hard-Won Wisdom of Old Age: A Conversation with David Troyansky 0% found this document usefulMating Crisis: Why The Rate Of Single Men Looking For Dates Has Declined | William Costello PT 1 0% found this document usefulHow do you know if you want kids? With Keltie Maguire 0% found this document usefulDon’t Be A Dream Hoarder 0% found this document useful312: David Christian on A Big History of Everything 0% found this document usefulSteven Pinker: Things are Getting BETTER!: Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Nate Hagens Works With Energy Dumbo FeatherArticle
Nate Hagens Works With Energy
Apr 5, 2023
15 min readGood News At Last: The World Isn’t As Horrific As You Think | Hans Rosling The GuardianArticle
Good News At Last: The World Isn’t As Horrific As You Think | Hans Rosling
Apr 11, 2018
4 min readToo Little, Too Slow, Too Late Is Not an Option NewsweekArticle
Too Little, Too Slow, Too Late Is Not an Option
May 14, 2021
4 min readGoing Without New Zealand ListenerArticle
Going Without
Mar 22, 2020
7 min read‘Hunger Brings Loneliness And Shame. I Want To Banish Those Feelings For Good’ The Big IssueArticle
‘Hunger Brings Loneliness And Shame. I Want To Banish Those Feelings For Good’
Aug 2, 2021
5 min readListen Up TIMEArticle
Listen Up
Jan 24, 2020
5 min readListen Up Time Magazine International EditionArticle
Listen Up
Jan 24, 2020
5 min readWho Pays The Piper? North & SouthArticle
Who Pays The Piper?
Oct 13, 2019
11 min readLiving With Meaning New Zealand ListenerArticle
Living With Meaning
Jul 31, 2022
7 min readPeter Singer GQ AustraliaArticle
Peter Singer
Mar 18, 2020
9 min readTwo 14-Year-Olds Grill An Author About The Future Of Humanity NPRArticle
Two 14-Year-Olds Grill An Author About The Future Of Humanity
Jul 13, 2021
4 min readEditor’s Letter The Big IssueArticle
Editor’s Letter
Apr 10, 2023
The Iceland Food Club is one of the great successes of our time. It shouldn’t be needed. Like foodbanks and warm banks and any number of other good initiatives to help prevent many in society from falling off the edge, it’s a gross shame it exists at
2 min readLOHN SANEI & IRAJ ABEDIAN Saturday StarArticle
LOHN SANEI & IRAJ ABEDIAN
Nov 7, 2020
WHAT a surreal time to be alive. While we are living in a time of immense anxiety, fear and trauma, we are also living in a time of history-in-the-making; a time of incredible, meaningful opportunity. A time that demands different answers to familiar
2 min readLetters: ‘The Puzzle of the Wealthy’ The AtlanticArticle
Letters: ‘The Puzzle of the Wealthy’
Dec 28, 2018
3 min readA Contract For Change Time Magazine International EditionArticle
A Contract For Change
Aug 13, 2021
2 min readA Contract For Change TIMEArticle
A Contract For Change
Aug 13, 2021
2 min readIn Your Interest Money MagazineArticle
In Your Interest
Jun 5, 2019
3 min readBird’s Words The Big IssueArticle
Bird’s Words
Jan 9, 2023
Watching: Extras, comedy series on BBC iPlayer Reading: Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Listening: Ricky Nelson’s Greatest Hits Doing: Preparing ammunition for the parliamentary and Big Issue activities of 2023 If you read my column regularly you will
3 min readBy The Num83r5 Esquire SingaporeArticle
By The Num83r5
Dec 20, 2022
If the success of a species might be measured by its numbers, humankind seemingly has much to celebrate. Remarkably, two millennia ago, there were just 300 million of us. Within your grandparents’ lifetime, that figure exploded to 2.5 billion. Now we
12 min readMarc Freedman: Building Bridges Across Generations KiplingerArticle
Marc Freedman: Building Bridges Across Generations
Jun 3, 2019
Want to live forever? Marc Freedman can help. No, he's not one of the Silicon Valley "immortalists" seeking to radically prolong human life spans. He's the chief executive officer of Encore.org, an organization that aims to help older Americans make
4 min readTo End Poverty, We Need Long-term Investment The Big IssueArticle
To End Poverty, We Need Long-term Investment
Nov 1, 2021
3 min readWhy Declining Birth Rates Are Good News For Life On Earth Laura Spinney Guardian WeeklyArticle
Why Declining Birth Rates Are Good News For Life On Earth Laura Spinney
Jul 16, 2021
3 min readNaomi Klein’s Advice for the Next Generation of Climate Activists Literary HubArticle
Naomi Klein’s Advice for the Next Generation of Climate Activists
Sep 19, 2019
8 min readShut Out New InternationalistArticle
Shut Out
Feb 20, 2020
10 min readSo British People Aren’t Socialising Much? That Doesn’t Mean They’re Lonely | Fay Bound Alberti The GuardianArticle
So British People Aren’t Socialising Much? That Doesn’t Mean They’re Lonely | Fay Bound Alberti
Jun 20, 2019
3 min readMatthew Desmond Has A Message: US Poverty Is Immoral The Christian Science MonitorArticle
Matthew Desmond Has A Message: US Poverty Is Immoral
Apr 28, 2023
In his powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 book “Evicted,” sociologist Matthew Desmond followed eight Milwaukee families facing the loss of their homes. His clearheaded but impassioned follow-up, “Poverty, by America,” examines the stubborn persist
3 min readBetter Life Outcomes New Zealand ListenerArticle
Better Life Outcomes
Jul 18, 2021
Maria English and Impact Lab seek to deliver positive, culturally appropriate and evidence-based support to ensure the best life outcomes for the most at-risk and vulnerable New Zealanders (“Smarter data”, July 3). To understand why 15% of us use 50%
8 min readThe Future Of Humanity New Zealand ListenerArticle
The Future Of Humanity
May 22, 2022
9 min readAre We Trading Our Happiness for Modern Comforts? The AtlanticArticle
Are We Trading Our Happiness for Modern Comforts?
Oct 22, 2020
6 min readLauren Bush: Follow These Steps to End World Hunger NewsweekArticle
Lauren Bush: Follow These Steps to End World Hunger
Jan 20, 2017
4 min read
Reviews for The Life You Can Save
Rating: 3.625 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
8 ratings0 reviews