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What if you were told to pick one massive thing that's wrong in this world and given $10 billion to fix it, what would you choose to fix?
I was watching an episode of West Wing and this question came up, and I thought it was interesting.
Do you look to the future?
Do you deal with with something current and immediate?
I always thought if I had the power, that I would eliminate all the scum in the world that is stopping progress, all the warmongers and terrorist cells... But is that playing God (if I believed God exists)?
I dunno...
I was watching an episode of West Wing and this question came up, and I thought it was interesting.
Do you look to the future?
Do you deal with with something current and immediate?
I always thought if I had the power, that I would eliminate all the scum in the world that is stopping progress, all the warmongers and terrorist cells... But is that playing God (if I believed God exists)?
I dunno...
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The big problems like world hunger etc $10b would be a drop in the ocean.
Which, incidentally is what I'd do with it.
Well either way, been British i would put that money to making Britain better, create more jobs, lower unemployment, reduce if not eradicate poverty in the UK and make the homeless population disappear (No, not kill them all, deal with the problem properly), etc. Maybe it wouldnt be enough to make a difference...but i would have ago.
Or i would cut and run, take the money, buy an island or country and rule it like a living God with lots of sex slaves.
Everyone seems to either live in the past, not willing to move on or the future, wishing there life away. What happened to "Seize the day!"?
It could have been a reality if we didn't sign the Kyoto treaty. We've spent far more than $10 billion implementing the Kyoto treaty and we could have used that money to provide clean drinking water to everybody in the developing world...
Kyoto is important too- the famines and droughts are as a direct result of us raping the planet for corporate gain, after all.
There were famines and droughts long before industrialisation...
Preservation of the rainforest and of the environment is important. I don't however believe that spending billions on fairly slight reductions in carbon dioxide emissions will bring any tangible benefits. The astronomical high cost of Kyoto simply isn't worth it. Fairly soon we'll start using alternatives to fossil fuels anyway and the global warming theory isn't indisputable. And even if it is mostly accurate Kyoto is hardly going to reverse the effects, it'll barely make any impact. If climate change occurs on the scale the scaremongers are predicting and accusations that they're exaggerating prove false humans will survive through adapting, not through trying to reverse the effects.
If the signatories to Kyoto scrapped the treaty tomorrow and said they'd commit to providing clean drinking water to everybody in Africa instead of spending billions implementing the treaty I don't think there would be any impact on climate change. But we'd have helped millions of people instead.
The Kyoto agreement is a good and beneficial thing. And yet you would like to see it gone. I wonder why that is.
Indeed, I wonder why don't we choose to find the $10bn from elsewhere. For instance from defence budgets. Given that the planet spends hundreds of billions of dollars a year in fucking weapons you would think we could take a few billions from there instead of getting rid of the Kyoto agreement. Wouldn't you?
Though i would like to see more ice caps again. Where else will the penguins and polar bears live?
I hear polar bear paws are exceptionally tasty!! :chin:
as for ice caps ...they are far more important to our survival than that of a few animals.
the ice caps reflect huge ammounts of heat and light back into space ...the smaller they get ...the hotter we get.
Seriously though... I'd improve social facilities such as hospitals and schools.
There were, you are right, but the fact that droughts are becoming longer, drier, and more widespread is pretty much agreed.
Making industry act responsibly and efficiently is worth the price.
And as for Kyoto, the little things will change a lot, at no cost. Turning computers and lights and TVs off when you leave the room doesn't cost money- it saves it. Leaving offices turned off, instead of lit up like Blackpool on illuminations night, saves money, not costs it. Turning your telly off instead of onto standby saves money, not costs it.
The high polluting businesses use the cost as a whitewash. The fact is they can't be arsed to do what it takes, its got nothing to do with finances.
No, but the smog hovering over most industrialised countries is pretty indisputable.
Unless you think pumping all that crap into the atmosphere is good?