For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the
classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the
author has revised and updated all the chapters, and added a new
chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical
challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this
book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when
others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively
reared animals? Am I doing something wrong if my carbon footprint is
above the global average? Other questions confront us as concerned
citizens: equality and discrimination on the grounds of race or sex;
abortion, the use of embryos for research, and euthanasia; political
violence and terrorism; and the preservation of our planet's
environment. This book's lucid style and provocative arguments make
it an ideal text for university courses and for anyone willing to
think about how she or he ought to live.

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