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This is the right time to ask yourself: “What should I be doing to help?” For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. Yet around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for bottled water. And though the number of deaths attributable to poverty worldwide has fallen dramatically in the past half-century, nearly ten million children still die unnecessarily each year. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the worldвЂTMs population, we must become part of the solution. In The Life You Can Save , philosopher Peter Singer, named one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” by Time magazine, uses ethical arguments, provocative thought experiments, illuminating examples, and case studies of charitable giving to show that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible. Singer contends that we need to change our views of what is involved in living an ethical life. To help us play our part in bringing about that change, he offers a seven-point plan that mix

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

Author

Singer, Peter

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400067107

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

4.05 / 5 (2,139 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14