RE: The Bill and Melinda Gates Annual Letter for 2017
The Letter was more interesting than I expected, I learned quite a bit, thanks: – Malaria is harder to eliminate than Polio, Nutrition harder than Reproductive health, and Saving Newborns is harder to undertake than Saving children under 5.
The Gates post 122 million children were saved since 1990, that works out to approximately 12,855 per day by my calculations.
Given that the following facts are correct: each day the world currently adds about 228,500 additional people. Using the figure of 21% of those, on a world average, below the poverty line - yesterday we added 47,992 new 'poor' to the world. Each will need Clothing, Shelter, Food, Water, and Energy - just the Basics to survive.
I would guess each family would have more than 2 children, but even if not, what happens when the Foundation funds begin to dry up?
Perhaps the 62 world citizens (the top of the 1% Club) that now own or control wealth equivalent to the poorer half of the world's population (3,720,260,858) [1] might contribute?
- what is your opinion?
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Great comment, thank you!
I put some thoughts down here for how to improve the world which relates to this discussion. I think as more people move up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs the number of births will decline as people have better access to birth control and infant mortality rates decline.
I think the Giving Pledge will also play an important role in the future.
I am really taken back by the number of, and so many well recognized members in the Giving Pledge. That gives me a little more hope, and optimism is reappearing :-)
Must sleep now, but I definitely will read and comment on your How to Improve the World tomorrow.
Thanks! Following you for more.