Saturday, December 16, 2006
Quote of Note: Jeffrey Sachs
"We can realistically foresee the end of poverty in our time."
Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University, in this remarkable video [.ram (RealMedia)].
Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University, in this remarkable video [.ram (RealMedia)].
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Comments:
Sure, we'll eliminate poverty ... right after we have electricity which is too cheap to meter.
(If we are indeed to eliminate poverty worldwide, we must first acknowledge that there is no poverty in the USA -- because the poor in the USA live like the middle class everywhere else.)
(If we are indeed to eliminate poverty worldwide, we must first acknowledge that there is no poverty in the USA -- because the poor in the USA live like the middle class everywhere else.)
How about if we eliminate poverty after transistors become too cheap to count? Haw haw haw, never happen, right?
Sachs' point, clear to those who WTFV, is that we have the means, and they are affordable, so is it moral to not try?
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Sachs' point, clear to those who WTFV, is that we have the means, and they are affordable, so is it moral to not try?
