What should we do about global poverty? - Dr. Steven Brown

According to Thomas Pogge, poverty killed 416 million people in the 20th century. More died from poverty than from Stalin, Mao, and World War II combined.

In 1973, the second Humanist Manifesto resolved that "World poverty must cease. Hence extreme disproportions in wealth, income, and economic growth should be reduced on a worldwide basis...Let us work together for a humane world by means commensurate with humane ends." The 2003 document "Humanism and Its Aspirations" added, "We seek to minimize the inequities of circumstance and ability, and we support a just distribution of nature's resources and the fruits of human effort so that as many as possible can enjoy a good life."

The Maximin Project is working to eradicate global poverty one thoughtfully made connection at a time. Dr. Steven Brown created the Maximin Project in direct response to his experience as an ethics instructor in the Philosophy Department at The Ohio State University. After several years of teaching, he came to realize that educating students about the ethics of extreme poverty was simply not enough. If those students were going to be mobilized into action, they needed to know how they could best invest their personal resources in providing efficient and effective aid to the people in greatest need. Leveraging his own past experience in web development, he founded the Maximin Project to work toward the creation of a well-designed, modern website focused on the elimination of extreme poverty.

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