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Bill Gates: We can lower the population through vaccines and medicine. Minute 4:42 http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gate
by iterationx 16y ago
Bill Gates: We can lower the population through vaccines and medicine. Minute 4:42 http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
Not really the go to guy for vaccine info.
- sorbus 16y agoThe actual quote: "Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower [the population] by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent." You can read that to mean that he wants to kill people off using vaccines, health care, and reproductive health services, I suppose. I would read it as meaning that he believes that if quality of life increases, making it less likely for an individual to die due to preventable disease or injury, people will have fewer children.
- Opie_taylor 16y agoMaybe he just wants to sterilize them with the vaccines? Wow - that was an incredibly dumb thing for him to say, given some of the third world's beliefs about vaccination.
- iterationx 16y agoReproductive health services is a euphemism for condoms and abortion a clear way to lower the population. Vaccines have been used to sterilize people before and maybe in the name of saving the environment they will be used again.