Saving People thru many specific diseases, hunger and other charities is a good idea.
But poverty/hunger/famine/disease is a Hopeless Cause when the planet can barely handle the amount of people we have now.
China's [brutal] One-child policy has in fact saved Hundreds of Millions from misery.. but China ALONE builds the equivalent of One Coal Power Plant every two weeks.
It now sells more automobiles domestically than tthe USA
Combine that with india and others... and this planet cannot take another 2 billion consumers (China and india alone) like the the USA's three hundred million.
The Biggest 'exports' of some countries (Haiti, Mexico, Pakistan etc) is People!
People that are doomed to a life of poverty unless and until they fill up other countries.
Stop the madness and the Source, or at the very least, contributor to all the world's problems.
Urge our New President to Get the UN back in the Family Plannning business that Bush gutted.
http://www.unfpa.org/public/ UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
http://www.iheu.org/node/2093
Planned Parenthood
(and any other suggestions Welcome and I may add some in subsequent posts)
Haiti aid is a merciful, but a Joke.
They are the new Easter Island, having consumed their countryside. A Microcosm of things to come.
Gates Foundation is saving tens of Millions in Africa and Asia... who Will Have to cut down the rest of the Rainforest for Farmland and Firewood.
Condoms etc, are 10,000 times cheaper and better for the Planet.
"Save Polar Bears" for what? Zoos?
I laugh when I see that myopic advertisment.
It's their vanishing Habitat and human encroachment that is wiping out many species.
Eventually we will be the victims of our 'success'.
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