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I wish he were to post something similar regarding climate change and energy developments.
by Daishiman 13y ago
I wish he were to post something similar regarding climate change and energy developments.
- dredmorbius 13y agoYep. That was a pretty conspicuous omission from his list. That and coordinated approaches to significant problems, whether at the national or international level. I'm seeing less rather than more success at both scopes.
- tptacek 13y agoI wish someone was working as hard on climate change as Gates is on preventable disease in the developing works. But I do not wish that Gates worked any less diligently on the problems he's chosen. Global poverty and disease in the developing world are, particularly in the way they stifle the potential of a huge fraction of the world's people, root causes of most of our other big problems.
- pizza234 13y ago"Global poverty and disease in the developing world are, particularly in the way they stifle the potential of a huge fraction of the world's people, root causes of most of our other big problems." No, they're definitely not the root causes. There's plenty of interest from the richer countries to keep poor countries in such condition, that is the root cause.
- tptacek 13y agoWaiting for the drone strikes to take out Bill Gates then.
- Nimi 13y agoIf you're interested mainly in at-a-glance summaries, this might fit: http://www.ipcc.ch/ http://www.ipcc.ch/
- robotys 13y agoWhy it must be him? Why not me? Why not YOU?
- Daishiman 13y agoBecause Gates is an exceptionally well-informed man on the subject matter, and I'm very interested in what one of the wealthiest persons in the world has to say about action to prevent the world's biggest ills.