We may well be able to get rid of these specific mosquito species, this
may well end up proven to be a safe and effective thing to do. Also what
John mentioned a while back in this tread about genetically modified
rice that contains vitamin A is probably going to work well.
However, the reason why in third world countries they're having all
these problems is because the governments there don't functioning well.
Some countries are simply poor countries, but that's not true in all
cases. Take e.g. India, that country is doing quite well from a
macro-economic point of view. It's certainly not the case that India
lacks money. Still, there is a lot of poverty in that country, and
that's the fundamental reason why in some parts of that country malaria
is endemic and people suffer from vitamin A deficiency.
Addressing malaria and vitamin A deficiency via technical solutions is
then a worthwhile option, but you're then still only eliminating certain
symptoms from a more fundamental problem. People getting vitamin A via
rice will still be malnourished, and eliminating malaria won't cure
tuberculosis. A technical solution to all these other problems isn't
going to be feasible simply because there are way too many of these
other problems caused by poor infrastructure, an ineffective government
etc. etc.
And while here where we don't have these sorts of problems we see in
third world countries, the same thing can be said about the other for
the problems we do have here. The obesity epidemic, the ever increasing
incidence of type-2 diabetes, heart attacks and stokes are not going to
be eliminated from society by new revolutionary treatment methods. We're
not going to get to a healthy population if that population doesn't want
to eat healthy and doesn't want to exercise.
Saibal
On 30-09-2018 14:42, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 11:23 PM Russell Standish
<[email protected]> wrote:
___Over 10 years (say) 7 million lives are lost, diminishing our
capacity for producing the next Einstein by 0.1%. _
Well.... 0.1% is pretty low, but I have a hunch the probability of one
of 7 million mosquitoes becoming the next Einstein would be even
lower.
In the same time, the world's population has grown by 11.5%,
offsetting that loss many
times over.
And if a child dies or goes blind there is no need for the parents to
cry, they can just have another.
John K Clark
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,
send an email to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to
[email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list
[1].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout [2].
Links:
------
[1] https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list
[2] https://groups.google.com/d/optout
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
