The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer (Audiobook)

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What if you could help change or even save lives with very little effort? It may sound too good to be true, but in The Life You Can Save, world-renowned professor of bioethics Peter Singer shows us how small sacrifices can make a big impact and help end the needless suffering caused by extreme poverty. Listen to a free audiobook narrated by Kristen Bell, Stephen Fry, Paul Simon and more in The Life You Can Save podcast. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-life-you-can-save/support

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The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer (Audiobook) episodes:

10.20.2020
Introduction to The Life You Can Save Audiobook
Charlie Bresler, Ph.D., the Executive Director of The Life You Can Save organization, invites you to listen carefully to Peter Singer’s, celebrity-read audiobook by the same name. Dr. Bresler suggests that if you “open your mind” to Singer’s words that...
10.08.2020
Introduction by Hachette Audio
Hachette Audio, partner of The Life You Can Save, the organization, introduces the 10th-anniversary edition of The Life You Can Save by Professor Peter Singer, one of the world’s most influential living philosophers. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-life-you-can-save/support
10.07.2020
Foreword by Michael Schur: I'd never looked at it that way before
Michael Schur, the acclaimed executive producer and creator of the NBC series “The Good Place,” describes how the first edition of The Life You Can Save, sparked a change in his world view, leaving him with the realization that we...
10.06.2020
Preface by Peter Singer
Professor Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save, introduces the 10th-anniversary edition. Reflecting on what has and hasn’t changed, he describes his intention to distil what he has learned over his forty-year career, about why we give or...
10.05.2020
Chapter 01: Saving a Child. Read by Kristen Bell.
In this chapter–narrated by Kristin Bell, award-winning actress and star of the NBC series “The Good Place”–Professor Peter Singer asks; “If you saw a child drowning in a pond, would you jump in and save them?” He argues that the...
10.04.2020
Chapter 02: Is it Wrong Not to Help? Read by Paul Simon.
In chapter 2–narrated by award-winning singer-songwriter Paul Simon– Professor Peter Singer asks how far our moral obligation to help those living in poverty extends. Reflecting upon traditional views on helping the poor, he argues that there is nothing new in...
10.03.2020
Chapter 03: Common Objections to Giving. Read by Marc Evan Jackson.
Marc Evan Jackson–best known for his acting in the NBC series “The Good Place,” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”–narrates this Chapter which considers the validity of common objections to charitable giving. Examining global philanthropy, Professor Singer emphasizes that we are not yet...
10.02.2020
Chapter 04: Why Don't We Give More? Read by Natalia Vodianova.
In this chapter–narrated by supermodel, philanthropist, and angel impact investor, Natalie Vodianova–Professor Singer considers the psychological factors underlying why people don’t give more, and what might change that. Drawing upon his experiences, he debunks the hypothesis that “It’s not in...
10.01.2020
Chapter 05: Creating a Culture of Giving. Read by Stephen Fry.
Narrated by the acclaimed English author, actor, and comedian, Stephen Fry, Chapter 5 delves into proven approaches to creating a culture of giving. Describing the emergence of effective giving communities across the globe, Professor Singer outlines examples of how the...
09.30.2020
Chapter 06: How much does it cost to save a life? Read by Nicholas D'Agosto.
Narrated by actor and artist Nicholas D'Agosto, Chapter 6 debunks commonly held myths about how we should evaluate a charity’s performance and decide where to give. Drawing upon the emergence of charity evaluators who prioritize cost-effectiveness, Professor Singer highlights how...
09.29.2020
Chapter 07: Improving Aid. Read by Peter Singer.
This chapter delves into the criticisms of international aid, considers ways to objectively assess which types of aid program work, and examines how we can improve aid efficiency. Professor Singer argues that we can sharply reduce extreme poverty if we...
09.28.2020
Chapter 08: Your child and the children of others. Read by Winnie Auma.
Chapter 8 is narrated by Winnie Auma, the Uganda Country Director for Village Enterprise. Village Enterprise is a charity recommended by the charity evaluator The Life You Can Save for its work in ending extreme poverty in rural Africa through...
09.27.2020
Chapter 09: Asking Too Much? Read by Shabana Azmi.
Narrated by internationally renowned Indian film and theatre actress Shabana Azmi, in Chapter 9, Professor Singer poses the question: to be ethical, do we really have to give up all our unnecessary expenses? The Chapter addresses the nature and validity...
09.26.2020
Chapter 10: A Realistic Standard. Read by Peter Singer.
This chapter considers what is realistic with charitable giving. Professor Singer proposes a standard of donating roughly 5% of one’s annual income to effective charities for those who are financially comfortable, with less for those below that level, and significantly...
09.25.2020
What One Person Can Do. Read by Peter Singer.
This section is a call to action which urges people to visit the website of the charity The Life You Can Save for guidance on how to take simple actions, like sharing the book or pledging a percentage of their...
09.24.2020
Afterword: From Contemplation to Action. By Charlie Bresler.
Charlie Bresler, the Executive Director of the charity The Life You Can Save, tells his own story of how his life was radically changed by Professor Singer’s The Life You Can Save and how, since reading the book, he has...
09.20.2020
Acknowledgments. By Peter Singer.
Professor Singer thanks the people who worked tirelessly to make the tenth-anniversary re-launch of The Life You Can Save possible. Explore Peter's nonprofit, The Life You Can Save: www.thelifeyoucansave.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-life-you-can-save/support
11.12.2018
Interview with Sjir Hoeijmakers from Founders Pledge
Founders Pledge is an organization that gets founders and companies to pledge a certain percentage of their personal proceeds to charity when they sell their business. So far they have raised 91 million dollars. This episode was edited by Will...
08.13.2018
Reasons Why People Don't Give to Charity
Rupert and Loren share from their personal journeys and talk about different barriers that stop people from giving to charities. It's not that people aren't generous, its about addressing those reservations with research driven answers. ** 2018: The price of...
03.22.2018
Empowering Women
In 2017 we curated 8 charities that have a proven track record of empowering women in some of the poorest areas of the world. In today's podcast, we would like to provide an overview of these 8 charities that work...
03.13.2018
Is Giving Cash Better?
In this episode, Rupert and Loren discuss about the pros and cons of giving cash directly to people living in extreme poverty, as an alternative to traditional charitable models.
03.06.2018
Philanthropist Footballers: The Bigger Picture
Manchester United footballer Juan Mata made headlines by pledging to donate 1% of his income to charity, to much praise. But is giving 1% really that good, or is it something that most of us should be doing anyway? As...
11.03.2017
How Can We Empower Women to End Poverty?
Causes of poverty can differ from country to country, but empowering women and girls is one cause that transcends borders, impacting all nations. In rich and poor countries alike, a key to poverty alleviation is in convincing people that they...
10.20.2017
Improving Food Quality for Hundreds of Millions of People
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Project Healthy Children (PHC) have recently announced a partnership to improve the quality and delivery of one of the world's most cost-effective interventions: food fortification.
05.26.2017
The One Percent Solution
Anyone who thinks about their ethical obligations will rightly decide that - since, no matter what we do, not everyone will give even 1% - they should do more.
05.12.2017
Walking Across Southern Africa to Fight Global Poverty
I believe one of the important things development programs should focus on is not only providing the resources required to lift people out of poverty, but to also provide training on what to do once they begin generating an income,...
04.28.2017
The Ethical Cost of High Priced Art
If artists, art critics, and art buyers really had any interest in reducing the widening gap between the rich and the poor, they would be focusing their efforts on developing countries, where spending a few thousand dollars on the purchase...
03.17.2017
Listen to the Radio: How DMI Saves Lives With Media Campaigns
Development Media International uses mass media campaigns to raise awareness of public health risks and change behaviors in developing countries, using rigorous analyses to test the campaigns' effectiveness and estimate how many lives they save.
03.02.2017
The Canonization of Inefficiency: Why We Need to Do Better Than Mother Teresa and the Vatican
The well-founded and well-documented criticism that has been lobbed at Mother Teresa since the mid-1990s has largely failed to shake her public perception as a saint. Her upcoming canonization begs the question how this is possible and what, if anything,...
02.23.2017
What You Need to Know About Global Hunger
The average American household gives $2,974 to charity each year. How far could that amount go to alleviating hunger and malnutrition in the developing world?
02.16.2017
What Does Gender Equality Have to Do With Global Poverty?
In the struggle against global poverty, is gender equality an impactful goal we should focus on and strive towards?
02.02.2017
How to Give Like Bill Gates, Even if You Have Little to Give
By following the Gates Foundation's principle that "all lives have equal value," you can dramatically increase the impact of your giving.
10.20.2016
Why Your Inner Control Freak Needs Taming When It Comes to Charitable Giving
Some time ago, I had a conversation with a friend about charitable giving. She said that one of the reasons she was giving locally rather than globally was that she felt more in control about where the money goes. But...
10.06.2016
Why Poverty Hurts Our Children Most
Globally about 16,000 children under the age of five die each day—most from preventable conditions associated with poverty. That’s a staggering number. At that rate, this means that more than 11 children die unnecessarily every single minute. In the five...
09.22.2016
The Stories Behind the Data
Behind each of these neatly summarized findings (from the U.S. Agency for International Development's Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program) lie stories of personal hardship, risks, and logistical challenges faced by data gatherers—the unsung heroes of international health and poverty...
08.25.2016
Understanding "Normal" Giving Behavior - Part II
One reason for the poverty/giving disconnect is that our brains are not equipped to focus on multiple variables simultaneously, so we prioritize those needing immediate attention. This can explain at least part of why we have trouble keeping in mind...
08.11.2016
Escaping Normal - Part I
There is a disconnect for many of us between the supreme moral value we place on human life and the way we are able to tune out awareness of the millions of people globally who are caught in a downward...
07.28.2016
How Effective Giving Can Protect Us From Charity Scandals
Anger and dismay greeted the March 10 announcement that the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit that helps wounded veterans, fired its top staff, who spent millions of donor dollars on first-class airfare, employee retreats, and extravagant salaries. Each of us...
07.14.2016
Tapping Skeptic Hearts Through Giving Games
Giving Games are workshop-style events aimed to advance philanthropic education. Participants learn about a couple of pre-selected charities, think about and discuss their personal values and reasons for giving, consider what methods and metrics they should use to select a...
06.30.2016
We’re Adding One Acre Fund to Our List of Best Charities. Here’s Why.
Subsistence agriculture accounts for the largest economic activity in the developing world, and a majority of the global poor rely on small-scale farming to support themselves and their families. One Acre Fund empowers farmers to increase their crop harvests and...
06.16.2016
4 Ways to Donate Better
From picking a worthy charity to making your contribution go further, there's a lot to learn about how to be the most effective altruist you can be. Here are 4 essential tips for making your donation.
05.05.2016
Peter Singer - Questions and Answers - The George Washington University
Question and Answers session after Peter's talk at George Washington University.
04.21.2016
The Busy Person's Guide to Charitable Giving
You've been wanting to donate money to help the poor for a while now, but there's just so much to think about: You want your money to go to the right place, you want it to do the most good...
04.07.2016
Why Inconvenient Altruism Might Be the Best Altruism
Let’s make the effort to donate the inconvenient way. That could mean writing a check instead of typing in your credit card number, or spending an hour learning about what a potential charity recipient will do with your donation.
03.24.2016
Choosing to Give
If we accept the premise that human lives are equal regardless of their circumstances, then we also accept that each of us has the power to alter those circumstances for the better.
03.10.2016
Does Aid Work?
Does aid work? Some authors argue yes, and we should give more. Others argue that it has been ineffective, or even hindered development of poor countries.
02.25.2016
Success Story: GiveDirectly
GiveDirectly's distinctiveness has been an emphasis on rigorous data rather than on stories about individual recipients to demonstrate success. We focus on providing donors with evidence about average effects rather than on stories about individual recipients, which can often be...
02.11.2016
Altruism Icebreakers
Breaking the ice can be tough, even if you are quite comfortable with your altruism and think there are very strong reasons for doing it. It’s a stance that challenges some commonly held assumptions about morality - an obviously touchy...
01.28.2016
A Global Partnership's Fight Against Iodine Deficiency
Iodine deficiency is a global public health problem and the world’s most common cause of preventable brain damage in newborns and infants. Goiter (an enlarged thyroid gland in the neck) is just the visible tip of the iceberg. The "hidden"...
01.14.2016
A Case for Data
I’m breaking all the marketing rules I learned, and sharing links to data rather than to stories. It’s what you, our partners and donors, have asked for. Nicholas Kristof calls us “economist geeks” for a reason: we know that’s who...

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The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer (Audiobook) episodes:

Introduction to The Life You Can Save Audiobook

Introduction by Hachette Audio

Foreword by Michael Schur: I'd never looked at it that way before

Preface by Peter Singer

Chapter 01: Saving a Child. Read by Kristen Bell.

Chapter 02: Is it Wrong Not to Help? Read by Paul Simon.

Chapter 03: Common Objections to Giving. Read by Marc Evan Jackson.

Chapter 04: Why Don't We Give More? Read by Natalia Vodianova.

Chapter 05: Creating a Culture of Giving. Read by Stephen Fry.

Chapter 06: How much does it cost to save a life? Read by Nicholas D'Agosto.

Chapter 07: Improving Aid. Read by Peter Singer.

Chapter 08: Your child and the children of others. Read by Winnie Auma.

Chapter 09: Asking Too Much? Read by Shabana Azmi.

Chapter 10: A Realistic Standard. Read by Peter Singer.

What One Person Can Do. Read by Peter Singer.

Afterword: From Contemplation to Action. By Charlie Bresler.

Acknowledgments. By Peter Singer.

Interview with Sjir Hoeijmakers from Founders Pledge

Reasons Why People Don't Give to Charity

Empowering Women

Is Giving Cash Better?

Philanthropist Footballers: The Bigger Picture

How Can We Empower Women to End Poverty?

Improving Food Quality for Hundreds of Millions of People

The One Percent Solution

Walking Across Southern Africa to Fight Global Poverty

The Ethical Cost of High Priced Art

Listen to the Radio: How DMI Saves Lives With Media Campaigns

The Canonization of Inefficiency: Why We Need to Do Better Than Mother Teresa and the Vatican

What You Need to Know About Global Hunger

What Does Gender Equality Have to Do With Global Poverty?

How to Give Like Bill Gates, Even if You Have Little to Give

Why Your Inner Control Freak Needs Taming When It Comes to Charitable Giving

Why Poverty Hurts Our Children Most

The Stories Behind the Data

Understanding "Normal" Giving Behavior - Part II

Escaping Normal - Part I

How Effective Giving Can Protect Us From Charity Scandals

Tapping Skeptic Hearts Through Giving Games

We’re Adding One Acre Fund to Our List of Best Charities. Here’s Why.

4 Ways to Donate Better

Peter Singer - Questions and Answers - The George Washington University

The Busy Person's Guide to Charitable Giving

Why Inconvenient Altruism Might Be the Best Altruism

Choosing to Give

Does Aid Work?

Success Story: GiveDirectly

Altruism Icebreakers

A Global Partnership's Fight Against Iodine Deficiency

A Case for Data