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I wish Bill or Warren would have run for presidency as an "outsider" instead of Trump. I guess our only hope will be their successor Mark (Zuckerberg)
I wish Bill or Warren would have run for presidency as an "outsider" instead of Trump. I guess our only hope will be their successor Mark (Zuckerberg)
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a53079/trump-cuban...
I wish Bill or Warren would have run for presidency as an "outsider" instead of Trump. I guess our only hope will be their successor Mark (Zuckerberg)
Bill and Melinda are better where they are, because they are free from political interference. Can you imagine the opposition they'd get from the GOP for pushing contraception so centrally? And if they get into power, probably from the democrats too, for not focusing on their favourite bandwagons. OT: Can someone explain the GOP's strident opposition to funding contraception, both domestically and in the US's foreign…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...
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Check what Hans Rosling said about this. You don't need to do anything.
Well that's not quite true. You have to fight poverty and improve educational attainments for those most in need. Contributing to those causes will have the side effect of stopping overpopulation.
Fighting poverty is done by improving economic openness - while people are always bitching about "inequalities" on the whole even the poorest are getting richer compared to 20 years ago and global poverty is steadily decreasing over time. And starvation is very much a thing of the past (except in conflict zones, for obvious reasons) while it was certainly not the case back in the 80s.
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So some trees are more important than saving 122 million children? I know I'm going to get all the nasty replies that it's a larger issue than just a few trees, that without trees there won't be people, etc. But comments like these are the reason that people dismiss environmentalists as nutjobs that care more about trees than people.
Climate change is not just about trees, but about the massive loss of biodiversity that goes along with rapid climate change. Sure most of Europe will be covered in pine trees, but at the same time a lot of species, essentially all that are not able to migrate with the same speed that the climate changes in their habitat will die out. This article for example claims that 1/2 of the known species have died out within…
Find a billionaire that is doing nothing for the world and criticize them for not doing something about climate change. Bill Gates is busy doing great things for humanity.
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Bill and Melinda are better where they are, because they are free from political interference. Can you imagine the opposition they'd get from the GOP for pushing contraception so centrally? And if they get into power, probably from the democrats too, for not focusing on their favourite bandwagons. OT: Can someone explain the GOP's strident opposition to funding contraception, both domestically and in the US's foreign…
There are a lot of Catholics on the conservative side of things, and contraception has been verboten to Catholics since the early days ("sex is for making babies, not fun" is the company line)
They care about this question, but not very much. Evangelicals, on the other hand overwhelmingly vote republican.
Catholics, in general, are the most liberal religious denomination in the US.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-fait...
For anyone interested in why polio hasn't been eradicated, it is likely related to the capture of Osama Bin Laden. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...
For anyone interested in why polio hasn't been eradicated, it is likely related to the capture of Osama Bin Laden. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...
I highly doubt this is truly the reason
[1] http://www.endpolio.com.pk/polio-cases-district-wise-2016