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Ignoring smaller numbers in eastern Europe and central Asia, the people dying from poverty and preventable diseases tend to be African, south east Asian or sout
by estaseuropano 6y ago
Ignoring smaller numbers in eastern Europe and central Asia, the people dying from poverty and preventable diseases tend to be African, south east Asian or south American.
- scrollaway 6y agoIt's called egocentrism.
- oblio 6y agoYeah, but nobody's killing them on purpose (I hope!). It's just that those regions are warm and humid, and this creates great living conditions for mosquitoes. To make things worse, many countries in these regions are poor, so they can't afford treatment or prevention (pesticides to kill mosquitoes, draining swamps, etc.). Rich countries in the same regions most likely don't have big problems with malaria (or if malaria is still a problem, it's probably a minor problem). It's just "bad" geography (from this point of view) and poverty.
- iso1631 6y agoFlorida is warm and humid If you see someone drowning and refuse to throw them the life ring because you might damage your newly painted nails, you're not technically killing them on purpose, but you're still killing them through your inaction
- oblio 6y agoI applaud your globalist approach, but nobody's really applying it. When push comes to shove, we're barely able to stand in solidarity at a national level.