You don’t generally think of Bill and Melinda Gates as pundits. But with their foundation pouring billions of dollars into global development, in effect the two are in the (highly data-driven) prediction business: placing bets on which investments will change the world the most. In their annual letter, released today, the two hazard some fairly specific guesses about the biggest changes in the world over the next 15 years, from cutting the number of childhood deaths in half and reducing deaths in childbirth by two-thirds to eradicating polio and a farming revolution to make Africa self-sufficient.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/15-big-breakthroughs-in-2015-114486.html
Dear Bill and Melinda:
Hello from the real world.
There are already too many humans on this planet. If you cut childhood and in-childbirth deaths, won't that make the problem worse? Do you plan to kill old people to somehow balance things out?
Also, the US (or maybe we should say global corporations) intends to turn Africa into a natural resources piggy bank, just like they have done to the rest of the world. The economic hit men are going to replace your "self sufficient" farming with monoculture farming to pay off the crushing debt which will be imposed on Africa, and there still won't be enough for them to eat ... especially because you intend to cut down on the number of deaths.
What have you two been smoking?
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