A lot of people say if you can easily
rescue someone at modest cost to yourself,
you ought to do it. It's wrong not to do it.
There's a question about how demanding
this morality can be, given that the
problem is such a large problem that we
can't solve individually.
So what are the effective organizations
that are going to make the best use of that
money? Some charities are hundreds of
times more effective than other
charities, which if you think about it, is pretty
surprising. When you look at the idea that
20 million people every year die of
easily preventable diseases, or when
you look at the costs of climate change,
you realize that actually the amount of
time that you've got to make a difference
is absolutely tiny. This question about, can
we help, and how do we know that our help
will actually be effective, is one of the
big issues.
