The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

Peter Singer

Mar 2009 · Random House

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.

Ratings and reviews

A very well written ethical argument for Effective Altruism-- potentially life-changing, definitely interesting. Will have you questioning how you best want to live your life and what your values are, and provides you with the framework to delve deeper into the world of philosophy. One of the few books I always keep a copy or two laying around for people to borrow!

Is a political propaganda for Oxfam. The argument is poor.

About the author

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than thirty books, including Animal Liberation, widely considered to be the founding statement of the animal rights movement, Practical Ethics, and One World: Ethics and Globalization.


From the Hardcover edition.