Editing Peter Singer (section)

=== Effective altruism and world poverty ===
{{Main|Effective altruism}}
[[File:Peter Singer - Effective Altruism -Melb Australia Aug 2015.jpg|thumb|Singer at an effective altruism conference in [[Melbourne]] in 2015]]
Singer's ideas have contributed to the rise of effective altruism.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Jollimore |first1=Troy |title=Impartiality |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/impartiality/ |encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |access-date=28 October 2018 |date=6 February 2017 |archive-date=25 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825043151/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/impartiality/ |url-status=live}}</ref> He argues that people should try not only to reduce suffering but to reduce it in the most effective manner possible. While Singer has previously written at length about the moral imperative to reduce poverty and eliminate the suffering of nonhuman animals, particularly in the [[meat industry]], he writes about how the effective altruism movement is doing these things more effectively in his 2015 book ''[[The Most Good You Can Do]]''. He is a board member of [[Animal Charity Evaluators]], a charity evaluator used by many members of the effective altruism community which recommends the most cost-effective animal advocacy charities and interventions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Board of Directors |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/about/contributors/meet-our-team/ |access-date=28 October 2018 |publisher=[[Animal Charity Evaluators]] |archive-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122031855/https://animalcharityevaluators.org/about/contributors/meet-our-team/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

His own organisation, The Life You Can Save (TLYCS), recommends a selection of charities deemed by charity evaluators such as [[GiveWell]] to be the most effective when it comes to helping those in extreme poverty. TLYCS was founded after Singer released his 2009 [[The Life You Can Save|eponymous book]], in which he argues more generally in favour of giving to charities that help to end global poverty. In particular, he expands upon some of the arguments made in his 1972 essay "[[Famine, Affluence, and Morality]]", in which he posits that citizens of rich nations are morally obligated to give at least some of their disposable income to charities that help the global poor. He supports this using the "drowning child analogy", which states that most people would rescue a drowning child from a pond, even if it meant that their expensive clothes were ruined. He argues that similarly, lives could be saved, notably by donating to effective charities, and that as a result a significant portion of the money spent on unnecessary possessions should instead be donate to charity.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1997-04-05 |title=The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle |url=https://newint.org/features/1997/04/05/peter-singer-drowning-child-new-internationalist |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=New Internationalist |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Skelton |first=Anthony |date=12 March 2009 |website=The Globe and Mail |title=Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/nobody-can-do-everything-but-everyone-can-do-something/article1149821/ |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-date=23 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923141421/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/nobody-can-do-everything-but-everyone-can-do-something/article1149821/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Since November 2009, Singer is a member of [[Giving What We Can]], an international organisation whose members pledge to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities.<ref>{{Cite web |author=[[Giving What We Can]] |url=https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/members/ |title=Members |access-date=September 25, 2020 |archive-date=12 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512001719/https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/members/ |url-status=live}}</ref>