Bill Gates has this thing called Gates Letter addressing three myths:
- Poor Countries Are Doomed To Stay Poor
- Foreign Aid Is A Big Waste
- Saving Lives Leads To Overpopulation
That these are myths is discussed in detail HERE.
In a related project, Bill Nye has made this video dispelling an overlapping set of myths:
And here's Bill Gates' "Viral Video"
Important cause. Not sure if that video is going to go viral, though.
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For those who haven't heard, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested by the Cambridge Police (the charges were later dropped). According to Gates' attorney:
It's winter, and as usually happens in winter, I'm having a hard time opening the gate to our back yard. Why? It's not the snow, it's physics.
Since some time in the early 80s I've laboured delightedly and intermittently to catch up with Ursula K. LeGuins oeuvre. I've covered her collections of short fiction and essays, and I will soon have her novels done, leaving the poetry and short kids' books.
I am talking about Bill Gates, of course.
My son was born just after the beginning of the year. To mark the occasion, I researched some ways in which the world of today is better than the world I was born into, in 1980.
Infant mortality has fallen by 50% worldwide and in the USA. It's fallen by three-quarters in India and China. Global under-5 mortality has also dropped by half.
All of this not in a century but in a single generation. We may have screwed up in any number of ways, but surely we've done something right.