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Book: The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty
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  1. Peter Singer _ The Life You Can Save: How to

    Or consider how we citizens of rich countries obtain our oil and minerals. Teodoro Obiang, the dictator of tiny Equatorial Guinea, sells most of his country's oil to American corporations, among them Exxon Mobil, Marathon, and Hess. Although his official salary is a modest $60,000, this ruler of a country of 550,000 people is richer than Queen Elizabeth II. He owns six private jets and a $35 million house in Malibu, as well as other houses in Maryland and Cape Town and a fleet of Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Bentleys. Most of the people over whom he rules live in extreme poverty, with a life expectancy of forty-nine and an infant mortality of eighty-seven per one thousand {this means that more than one child in twelve dies before its first birthday}.
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  2. Peter Singer _ The Life You Can Save: How to

    Reflecting this difference is the Indian state of Kerala. Although it is one of the poorer parts of the country, it has higher literacy and greater gender equality than much of the rest of India. Without resorting to a coercive approach such as a "one-child policy" Kerala has achieved a rate of population growth lower than China's and also lower than that in some developed countries, including
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  3. Peter Singer _ The Life You Can Save: How to

    In the Talmud {a record of discussions of Jewish law and ethics by ancient rabbis} it is said that charity is equal in importance to all the other commandments combined, and that Jews should give at least 10 percent of their income as tzedakah.
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  4. Peter Singer _ The Life You Can Save: How to

    I'm hoping that you will look at the larger picture and think about what it takes to live ethically in a world in which 18 million people are dying unnecessarily each year. That's a higher annual death rate than in World War II. In the past twenty years alone, it adds up to more deaths than were caused by all the civil and international wars and government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and Stalin. How much would we give to prevent those horrors? Yet how little are we doing to prevent today's even larger toll, and all the misery that it involves?
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  5. Peter Singer _ The Life You Can Save: How to

    If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need. Around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than you paid for that drink.
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  6. Peter Singer _ The Life You Can Save: How to

    Christian magazine Sojourners, likes to point out that the Bible contains more than three thousand references to alleviating poverty-enough reason, he thinks, for making this a central moral issue for Christians.
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  7. Peter Singer _ The Life You Can Save: How to

    Thomas Aquinas, the great medieval scholar whose ideas became the semi-official philosophy of the Roman Catholic church, wrote that whatever we have in "superabundance"-that is, above and beyond what will reasonably satisfy our own needs and those of our family, for the present and the foreseeable future-"is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
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  8. Peter Singer _ The Life You Can Save: How to

    The world would be a much simpler place if one could bring about social change merely by making a logically consistent moral argument.
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  9. Peter Singer _ The Life You Can Save: How to

    If it is so easy to help people in real need through no fault of their own, and yet we fail to do so, aren't we doing something wrong? At a minimum, I hope this book will persuade you that there is something deeply askew with our widely accepted views about what it is to live a good life.
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  10. Peter Singer _ The Life You Can Save: How to

    If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need.
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