Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

by William MacAskill

What promising organizations are working on it? Cool Earth (accepts donations) helps indigenous peoples in Peru and the Democratic Republic of the Congo protect the rain forest in which they live from illegal logging. ClimateWorks (accepts donations) campaigns for public policies that will decrease the output of greenhouse gas emissions.

Every one of us has the power to save dozens or hundreds of lives, or to significantly improve the welfare of thousands of people.

Causevox.com; Charity Science, a fund-raising website set up by two people in the effective altruism community,