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The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first edited volume to critically engage with Effective Altruism (EA). It brings together writers from diverse activist and scholarly backgrounds to explore a variety of unique grassroots movements and community organizing efforts. By drawing attention to these responses and to particular cases of human and animal harms, this book represents a powerful call to attend to different voices and projects and to
elevate activist traditions that EA lacks the resources to assess and threatens to squelch. The contributors reveal the weakness inherent within the ready-made, top-down solutions that EA offers in response to many
global problems-and offers in their place substantial descriptions of more meaningful and just social engagement.
The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first edited volume to critically engage with Effective Altruism (EA). It brings together writers from diverse activist and scholarly backgrounds to explore a variety of unique grassroots movements and community organizing efforts. By drawing attention to these responses and to particular cases of human and animal harms, this book represents a powerful call to attend to different voices and projects and to
elevate activist traditions that EA lacks the resources to assess and threatens to squelch. The contributors reveal the weakness inherent within the ready-made, top-down solutions that EA offers in response to many
global problems-and offers in their place substantial descriptions of more meaningful and just social engagement.
Foreword: Amia Srinivisan
Introduction: Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen
Acknowledgements
1 How Effective Altruism Fails Community-Based Activism
Brenda Sanders
2 Effective Altruism's Unsuspecting 21st Century Colonialism
Simone De Lima
3 Anti-Blackness and the Effective Altruist
Christopher Sebastian
4 Animal Advocacy's Stockholm Syndrome
DeCoriolis, Aaron S. Gross, Steve J. Gross, and Joseph Tuminello
(Farm Forward)
5 Who Counts? Effective Altruism and the Problem of Numbers in the
History of American Wildlife Conservation
Michael D. Wise
6 Diversifying Effective Altruism Longshots in Animal Advocacy: An
Invitation to Prioritize Black Vegans, Higher Education, and
Religious Communities
Matthew C. Halteman
7 A Christian Critique of the Effective Altruism Approach to Animal
Philanthropy
David L. Clough
8 Queer Eye on the EA Guys
pattrice jones
9 A Feminist-Ethics-of-Care Critique of Effective Altruism
Carol J. Adams
10 The Empty Promises of Cultured Meat
Elan Abrell
11 How 'Alternative Proteins' Create a Private Solution to a Public
Problem
Michele Simon
12 The Power of Love to Transform Animal Lives: The Deception of
Animal Quantification
Krista Hiddema
13 Our Partners, The Animals: Reflections from a Farmed Animal
Sanctuary
Kathy Stevens
14 The Wisdom Gained from Animals Who Self-Liberate
Rachel McCrystal
15 Effective Altruism and the Reified Mind
John Sanbonmatsu
16 Against 'Effective Altruism'
Alice Crary
17 The Change We Need
Lori Gruen
Coda: Future-oriented Effective Altruism: What's wrong with
longtermism?
Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen
Alice Crary is University Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at
the New School for Social Research in New York.
Lori Gruen is William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan
University where she founded and coordinates Wesleyan Animal
Studies.
Carol J. Adams is a feminist scholar and activist whose work
explores the cultural construction of overlapping and
interconnected oppressions, as well as the ethics of care.
The entries of this book truly help draw attention to just how
dangerous EA is...All in all, reading this book would benefit just
about anyone.
*Corvus Strigiform, Weight Less State Blog*
The story of Effective Altruism is told here not by its proponents,
but by those engaged in liberation struggles and justice movements
that operate outside of Effective Altruism's terms. There is every
possibility that Effective Altruists will ignore what these voices
have to say…That would be a deep shame, and what's more, a betrayal
of a real commitment to bring about a better world.
*Amia Srinivasan, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory
at All Souls College, Oxford*
Effective Altruism has made big moral promises that are often
undermined by its unwillingness to listen attentively to the voices
of its detractors, especially those from marginalized communities.
In this vital, stimulating volume, we hear from some of the most
important of these voices on some of the most important criticisms
of Effective Altruism, including its racism, colonialism, and
technocratic rationalism. This book is essential, inviting reading
for both Effective Altruists and their critics.
*Kate Manne, Associate Professor at the Sage School of Philosophy,
Cornell University*
What could possibly go wrong when a largely white and male alliance
of academics, business and nonprofit arrivistes, and obscenely rich
donors reduce complex situations to numbers and plug those numbers
into equations that claim to offer moral and strategic clarity
about how we should live in a suffering world? In this book,
dissenting activists and academics speak passionately and plainly
about what has gone wrong
*and provide an armamentarium for those keen to free action and
imagination from the alliance's outsized grip on the work of
liberation.Timothy Pachirat, author of Every Twelve Seconds:
Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight*
This is a collection of works that embodies the both/and approach:
that there can be a unity in purpose, divergence in how that is
achieved, and an acknowledgment of the value and legitimacy of all
those efforts.
*Michelle Strauss, Journal of International Wildlife Law and
Policy*
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