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Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

What will Bill Gates do about that extra million people?

October 8, 2007 By admin

“In 1970, I rode a bus across Afghanistan with a Peace Corps worker who’d been there a year.  After I commented on people drinking from sewage ditches, he told me his boss had tried to persuade the King to let the Americans drill wells to give the people a better water supply.  ‘I can’t do that,’ the King said.  ‘Babies have always died; my people won’t blame me when babies die.  But they will blame me if there isn’t enough food.  How can I feed all the babies who won’t die?'”

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“The Gates Foundation will be able to cure a child of malaria for 25 cents, but Mr. Hobhouse points out that it will cost $500 in extra capital investment per surviving child to grow enough food.  One million more malaria survivors per year need $500 million in start-up costs to feed themselves.  $500 only pays for setting up a farm, it does not include teaching children how to farm, roads, courts, electricity, medical care, law enforcement, or any other social costs.”

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