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The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty is a 2009 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer, in which the author argues that citizens of affluent nations are behaving immorally if they do not act to end the poverty they know to exist in developing nations.
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. New York: Random House 2009. [109] The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. Yale University Press, 2015. [110] Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter. Princeton University Press, 2016. [110] Why Vegan? Eating ...
A common criticism of Singer's essay is the demandingness objection. For example, the "supposed obligation" of Singer's essay has been criticised by John Arthur in 1982, [8] by John Kekes in 2002, [9] and by Kwame Anthony Appiah in 2006, [10] and Singer's claim of a straight path from commonsense morality to great giving has also been disputed ...
Read on to discover 25 celebrities who rose to the top despite being born into poverty. #1 Dolly Parton The Jolene singer has described her family as being “dirt poor.”
One World: The Ethics of Globalisation is a 2002 book about globalization by the philosopher Peter Singer. In the book, Singer applies moral philosophy to four issues: the impact of human activity on the atmosphere; international trade regulation (and the World Trade Organization ); the concept of national sovereignty; and the distribution of aid.
Thommy Kane (born Thomas J Abate III; August 20, 1978, in Methuen, Massachusetts), also known as Poverty, is a filmmaker, hip-hop artist, singer, composer and actor in Los Angeles, California. He was living in a homeless shelter in Maine when he produced a demo that was eventually picked up by Artistdirect records, the offshoot of Interscope ...
The supergroup was formed by Bob Geldof, who was then lead singer of the Irish band the Boomtown Rats. The BBC played a major role in capturing the poverty affecting Ethiopian citizens and thereby influenced Geldof to take action. Paula Yates, Geldof's partner, is considered to have been the brains behind the original Band Aid.
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