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.
