In the third section, Singer considers the economics of aid, the political barriers to increasing the effectiveness of aid and efforts in measuring its effectiveness. He then goes on in the next section to outline some of the psychological barriers to giving more and how aid organizations and we as individuals can overcome these barriers. In the first section, he develops his argument for why we should give more and considers some common objections. Singer divides his book into four key sections. He does offer some suggestions on what organizations and governments can do to help, but even here, his modus operandi in moving institutions to do more is through us as individuals lobbying for change. Singer's argument is mainly focused on persuading us as individuals to give more to eradicate extreme poverty. With 10 chapters and at a little under 200 pages of text, it can easily be digested over a few afternoons. This book is a prime example of the effective use of reason in debating moral issues and is a welcome change from the emotionally supercharged outpourings and arcane logic we sometimes read. However, this does not detract from the force of his arguments and, in fact, makes them accessible to a significantly broader readership. In spite of his training as a professional philosopher, this book, as with many of his other works, is down to earth and written in a language easily digested by non-philosophers. His reputation as a philosopher and ethicist is international in its reach. He gained international notoriety for his defence of animal rights and was the founder of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. It remains a seminal text in the argument for our duty to eliminate extreme global poverty.
Peter Singer published The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty in 2009.
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