Effective-Altruism

🙏 Acknowledgement I recently came across a thought-provoking post by Benjamin Hilton of 80,000 Hours on the Effective Altruism Forum. The post provides a detailed overview of the immense harm caused by factory farming. Below is an excerpt highlighting some of the most shocking facts about the industry. For detailed references, please refer to the original article. This excerpt is also posed on Plant Futures DKU’s website. A pig confined to a pen. Photo by Matthias Zomer on Pexels. ...

Strangers Drowning : Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help by Larissa MacFarquhar is a deeply inspiring and thought-provoking book. It is mostly a collection of profiles for do-gooders who go to extreme length to help strangers. To various extent, they all have chosen to save “drowning strangers” instead of their own family, which may be unsettling for many people. Thus the book also discusses attacks mounted against do-gooders throughout history. ...