The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

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.

• Foreword: Amia SrinivisanIntroduction: Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori GruenAcknowledgements 1 How Effective Altruism Fails Community-Based Activism Brenda Sanders 2 Effective Altruism's Unsuspecting 21st Century ColonialismSimone De Lima 3 Anti-Blackness and the Effective AltruistChristopher Sebastian 4 Animal Advocacy's Stockholm SyndromeDeCoriolis, 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 ConservationMichael D. Wise 6 Diversifying Effective Altruism Longshots in Animal Advocacy: An Invitation to Prioritize Black Vegans, Higher Education, and Religious CommunitiesMatthew C. Halteman 7 A Christian Critique of the Effective Altruism Approach to Animal PhilanthropyDavid L. Clough 8 Queer Eye on the EA Guyspattrice jones 9 A Feminist-Ethics-of-Care Critique of Effective AltruismCarol J. Adams 10 The Empty Promises of Cultured MeatElan Abrell 11 How 'Alternative Proteins' Create a Private Solution to a Public ProblemMichele Simon 12 The Power of Love to Transform Animal Lives: The Deception of Animal QuantificationKrista Hiddema 13 Our Partners, The Animals: Reflections from a Farmed Animal SanctuaryKathy Stevens 14 The Wisdom Gained from Animals Who Self-LiberateRachel McCrystal 15 Effective Altruism and the Reified MindJohn Sanbonmatsu 16 Against 'Effective Altruism'Alice Crary 17 The Change We NeedLori Gruen Coda: Future-oriented Effective Altruism: What's wrong with longtermism?Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen