I found a statistic HERE that says in 2006 2.9 million people died of AIDS.
Now I might sound like a complete wank, which I probably am, but imagine these people did not die of AIDS. Imagine 2.9 million extra people on the planet. Let say 2 million people die every year of AIDS as an example. Imagine then that every year, on top of the scary amount of people on the planet, there were an extra 2 million. Imagine no one in this world ever died, other than from old age. The world would be totally fucked. We can campaign as much as we like to cure every disease on the planet, but the day this happens is the day we are completely fucked. Seriously, we might as well shoot ourselves in the foot and then bleed to death. Because there is only so much this world can cope with.
Imagine having to feed an extra 2.9 million people every year. This means more farming, more fossil fuels used to farm, more pollution, more global warming.
The only thing that concerns me in this world is global warming. We can cure AIDS, find vaccines for cancer, but if the world fucks out none of this is going to help us. I don't believe looking for a cure for AIDS is ever going to work. It's something that is there to save the planet. I know this sounds mean, but it is true. The world can't sustain the pace at which we are going. At this rate, we are all going to be screwed.
I just think that we need to concentrate on global warming. Because we have an eternity to cure AIDS if we want to, we have an eternity to do lot's of things. But with global warming, we don't have an eternity. I don't know how long we have, but it's not long. Every day we fuck ourselves by the rate at which we are growing.
And that's why disease exists, because we can't control ourselves, so nature has to. Think of the plague and all these other things. They are natural. I'm not the president or anything, but something needs to be done, rather fast.
What a deep article.
Let's all go to the beach.
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Dude, you raise some important issues, but your argument is flawed. You've got to bear in mind that the peak population group affected by HIV happens to be those in their 20s and 30s - people in their peak productive years. It's killing our workforce. The top of the pyramid can't survive without its base - and, furthermore, treating people for HIV-related illnesses costs billions more than if they were healthy. Imagine if we could pump all that money saved into other areas of need... say, like global warming? Just a thought...
I totally agree with that. Even better would be saving that money that is being used to treat HIV by preventing the disease in the first place. Unfortunately in Africa it is hard to get that message across especially in the poorer parts where education is virtually non existent and you really can't teach them about HIV. Even worse is the problem of people thinking that if they sleep with a virgin they will be cured of AIDS, which is madness!
I think there is so much to fix in the world that I would not personally know where to start, but global warming seems a good place to start.
Unfortunately, when I see programs on TV, like for instance programs on mining, they are using heavy machinery that just don't look like they will work on electricity, like a car may(or some prototypes do). These industries can't keep going without some serious form of fuel, like diesel and the like. But I think if we could get most of the cars on the road onto these bio-fuels(Such as fuels made from corn, old chip oil etc) or electricity(Granted not electricity made by coal burning power stations, but rather a renewable source) then we would be a good deal further into saving the planet.
Or we could just all go Amish style, tending to the land, chilling out, watching the sunset, which I doubt will happen! Funny enough that would be the ideal solution, but I guess the economy would then crash.
I know what you are saying about the pyramid not being able to survive without it's base. I remember in school looking at a pyramid of, my memory fails me now, but it was somewhere like China or Japan, where the bottom of the pyramid was virtually non existent due to people not having children. I believe the government were offering money to people to actually have children, which shows how important the base is.
Having said all of this, there are still too many people in the world. What to do about this I don't know, but I find it very interesting to see what is going to happen in the next 20 or 30 years.
I guess no one can really predict what is going to go down, we are just going to have to experience it for ourselves.
Which might either leave you in suspense, or shaking with nerves!
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