Tag: Animal advocacy

  • The good it promises (Part 5: de Coriolis et al.)

    The good it promises (Part 5: de Coriolis et al.)

    Andrew deCoriolis and colleagues urge effective altruists to dream big, keeping their eye on the prize: an end to factory farming. In this post, I discuss what deCoriolis and colleagues like about effective altruists’ animal advocacy work, and what changes they’d like to see.

  • The good it promises, the harm it does (Part 2: Simone de Lima)

    The good it promises, the harm it does (Part 2: Simone de Lima)

    I look at Simone de Lima’s essay “Effective altruism’s unsuspecting 21st century colonialism” to draw out lessons for the importance of learning from local history, knowledge and context, the dangers of quantification, and the pitfalls of top-down international governance by former colonial powers.