The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty

by Peter Singer

At its core, Singer’s book asks us to consider a very simple truth: a life is a life, no matter where that life lives. A human being over there is no less valuable than a human being over here. It then asks us, given that simple transitive property of inherent human value, to consider treating that life over there with the same care and attention we give to lives over here. That’s all. That’s the “ask.” If you want the Cliff’s Notes version of the ideas within these pages, you now have it.

The crux of the book