The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism

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

Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat, Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals and? The Pornography of Meat. She is the co-editor of several pathbreaking anthologies, including most recently Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (with Lori Gruen). Her work is the subject of two recent anthologies, Defiant Daughters: 21 Women of Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore The Sexual Politics of Meat, in which ?a new generation of feminists, artists, and activists respond to Adams' groundbreaking ?work.

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.