This is from a TEDx talk by Simon Moss, and gave me one of those brief confused child why-the-fuck-is-the-world-so-absurdly-unjust moments.
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Laura Gordon
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There's an Oxfam briefing paper that made this point among others a couple of years ago. The part on the carbon footprint of various foods was also quite depressing - have been a grumpy vegetarian ever since :-(
Thanks Laura. I'd like to see something like Givewell.org for this kind of thing - maybe call it livewell.org ? i.e. totally transparent rigorous dispassionate independent analysis
"Because the consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else." (Lucas 1988, On the Mechanics of Economic Development)
"The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point however is to change it" (Marx 1888)
Roving Bandit is a reference to Mancur Olson, not because I think I'm some kind of badass.
"represent the material embodiment of market discourses that run through the capillary structures of orgs that conform contemporary neoliberal ed policy" -- Education International
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There's an Oxfam briefing paper that made this point among others a couple of years ago. The part on the carbon footprint of various foods was also quite depressing - have been a grumpy vegetarian ever since :-(
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/4-a-week-changing-food-consumption-in-the-uk-to-benefit-people-and-planet-114037
Thanks Laura. I'd like to see something like Givewell.org for this kind of thing - maybe call it livewell.org ? i.e. totally transparent rigorous dispassionate independent analysis
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