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I told her about the book, an essay called Famine, Affluence, and Morality, by Peter Singer, an Australian philosopher who argued that anyone with the means to do so has a moral obligation to give to those in need.
Andrew Wilkinson • Never Enough
Ten percent of the recipients of farm subsidies collect 73 percent of the subsidies—between 2003 and 2005, $91,000 per farm. The average subsidy of the bottom 80 percent? Three thousand dollars per farm.28 And
Lawrence Lessig • Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
political economy as the prospect of human betterment,
John Robertson • The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
we cannot save the planet unless we significantly reduce our consumption of animal products.
Jonathan Safran Foer • We Are the Weather
We are living now inside the imagination of people who thought economic disparity and environmental destruction were acceptable costs for their power.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
in The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100, the economist Robert Fogel noted that “the energy value of the typical diet in France at the start of the eighteenth century was as low as that of Rwanda in 1965, the most malnourished nation for that year.”