Today's WSJ carried a news article concerning Bill Gates pledging nearly $800 million to combat tropical diseases. I want to link this effort to my singular and penny pinching endeavor to try to stop the world from plundering planet Earth's non-renewable resources, especially the fossil fuels.
My theme has been to utilize mankind's knowledge explosion of the last 200 years to finally realize that God's one-time-only gift of fossil fuel is meant also to test the sanity of Homo sapiens by observing the rate of consumption we actually decide on. The G & R (government and religion) leadership has not addressed the problem of rate control---we're free to use it up at the highest possible rate that technology will allow! This is insane.
I must also point out that the bacteria or parasites that cause the diseases were also created by God. It was an effort to control a population explosion in Africa, perhaps. Are we challenging or declining God's help to a better world? Let us follow through what Bill's $800 million will do. About half of the total has been spent for delivery of the drugs to the stricken people. But every activity, from drug development to delivery, depends on using down non-renewable energy resources. The world is already in economic crisis because mankind is still trying to increase energy supply to meet the galloping increases in demand of out of control life style and population growth. (The correct conduct is to determine the total available energy resources we are reasonably allowed to use, and cut demand to that number. More on this later...)
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