Tag: ethics

2024’s donations

This blog is now basically just a public record of my donation pledge… I aim to write more, about other stuff, at some point.

See previous years’ posts for the explanation of why giving 10% of your salary is a moral imperative — and also made very straightforward by the good people at Giving What We Can.

I’ve previously donated 10% before tax, but they recommend including the gift aid in your pledge. In calendar year 2024, I earned about £40k, so I’m donating £3.2k. With gift aid of £800, this is a pretty handy amount of cash for Giving What We Can’s Global Health Fund.

Tags charity, donations, ethics, life

Thinking

Global Civics documentary

Post author By Joe Mitchell
Post date October 5, 2012
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Produced by Hakan Altinay of the Brookings Institution and directed by Jian Yi, this film is probably the first documentary on the development or lack of development of ‘global civics’. That’s an ugly phrase, but it basically concerns the idea of global rights and responsibilities for all individuals on Earth.

The film tries to debate whether there is such a thing as global citizenship or a global community. Can people on one side of the world owe a responsibility to, and demand respect for their rights from, others on the other side of the world? I’d say that a positive response to that question shows the development of a ‘Globopolis’ – this should definitely be a word. You heard it here first.

Tags civics, cosmopolitanism, ethics, film, global community, global consciousness