The life you can save : how to play your part in ending world poverty

‘brilliant. A Practical Plan To Eradicate World Poverty’ Observer Would You Walk Past A Drowning Child? This Is A Book That Will Change The Way You Think About Giving. It Shows What You Can Do, As An Individual, About The Fact That More Than A Billion People Are Living In Extreme Poverty. It Argues For An Urgent Change In Our Culture, And It Invites You To Play Your Part. The Complexities Of The Aid Debate Are Well Rehearsed; The Phrase ‘charity Begins At Home’ Is All Too Familiar; The Sheer Scale Of The Task Is Overwhelming. But Singer, Who Has Been Writing For More Than Three Decades About How We Should Respond To Hunger And Poverty, Suggests That Anything Other Than Urgent And Direct Action Is Tantamount To Walking By. If Enough People Regularly Give A Small Amount, He Says, We Can Together Make A Significant Difference. Find Out About The Life You Can Save. For the first time in history, it is within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings.A billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for a bottle of water.Nearly ten million children die each year from poverty-related causes.Our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible.If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the world’s population, we must become part of the solution.This is the right time to ask yourself: ‘What should I be doing to help?’Peter Singer’s unflinching, persuasive and rigorous book is a call to action. It not only suggests what you should be doing, but also shows you how you can do it.It shows you the life you can save. The End of Poverty meets Nudge in an empowering, life-changing manifesto