How to stop epidemics Videos

• 1. Public Health Experts Focus on Preventing Epidemics
• 2. Microsoft's drones to catch mosquitoes and help stop epidemics
• 3. Rwanda Works with a Regional Lab Network to Prevent Epidemics
• 4. To stop more epidemics, should we be challenging the religious who oppose birth control?
• 5. New Approaches to Preventing Epidemics Transmitted by Mosquitos
• 6. Gates: Can Autopsies Stop Epidemics?
• 7. Vaccine Vision: Preventing epidemics, the virus hunt continues- Joseph Fair

Public Health Experts Focus on Preventing Epidemics

Microsoft's drones to catch mosquitoes and help stop epidemics

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Eenadu India commented on 16 Jun 2015

Drone to Catch Mosquitoes

Rwanda Works with a Regional Lab Network to Prevent Epidemics

To stop more epidemics, should we be challenging the religious who oppose birth control?

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flamifer commented on 12 Dec 2009

alvagold: According to heavy oil producers, they can get the oil at a cost as low as $20-$30 per barrel. Canada and Venezuela will be the biggest oil producers in the world. That probably means "business as usual" for another 50 years at least. What's so devastating about it is, that due to the availability of more oil, food production based on it, will increase overpopulation even further making the word "sustainability" equal to "miracle". Our only hope left, is that they are too optimistic.

Robert Muldoon commented on 01 May 2009

BTW- There is plenty of land and resources on this planet to sustain many times the current population. The only thing that is causing the strife is the same thing that it has always been: The few people at the top of the economic pyramid take way more than their share and hoard the rest in order to keep the rest of us subservient. The Elite have caused this planetary imabalence on purpose. I propose that we sterilize only the likes of The Rothschilds, The Rockerfellers, and The Duponts.

flamifer commented on 13 Dec 2009

The problem I am addressing is, that there are already more people on the planet, than can be supplied with sustainable energy sources. India and China are currently investing massivly in an economy system based on fossil fuels. With cheap oil available for at least another 2 decades, they will be able to feed more people and birth control won't be a priority any more. There might be 9 billion people on the planet when peak heavy oil happens. That's why I was hoping for an early peak oil

Alva Goldbook commented on 13 Dec 2009

Nonsense. There is enough sustainable (solar) power to sustain the entire planet, and probably 4 times more. It's just a question of advancing the technology along so that solar becomes more efficient. Solar provides us with the source of all energy, it's even the root source of fossil fuels. It's resource is endless. All we have to do is capture it. Other factors will decrease our population. Poverty. Starvation. Disease. Women's rights becoming more universal.

flamifer commented on 08 Dec 2009

alvagold: How about this solution: You can have as many children as you like, as long as you can feed them and give them a good education. Rich people would have lots of children, just to show off, how good they are. Then, when the parents die, the wealth would be spread to many heirs. Poor people would have only one or two children. But with a better education they would be able to get better jobs later on and have more kids themselves. How about that?

flamifer commented on 10 Dec 2009

Bad news: The US go for heavy oil now. There are supposedly 12,000 billion barrels of oil there to be extracted from oil sands. That would be sufficient to supply earth for another 150 years with that dirt. That simply means, that earth's population will continue to increase unhindered. That a sustainable life style will continue to be a dream, while the environment will be more and more damaged for another century. I am sad.

Robert Muldoon commented on 01 May 2009

Well, I don't think the government has any right to tell a woman that she can't have an abortion, but you have to be careful. It can be a slippery slope. We don't want the government forcing or coercing women into having abortions, either. That's even worse. It could be used as a tool for genocide. The government should just stay out of reproduction. It's none of their buisiness. :

flamifer commented on 08 Dec 2009

mldnathai: I am glad to hear, that there is enough arable land to sustain many times the current population. Can you provide me with figures? Do you know, how many people can be housed and fed on a 50 sq km piece of arable land with sufficient water available? Is it true, that most of the fish in the ocean are gone due to overfishing? How can that be? The oceans are so big.

greatbroad commented on 02 May 2009

Here in Illinois last season, many farmers chose not to harvest their corn. Left it to rot in the fields. The price of corn fell as gas hit $4/gal. So what does that tell me? It tells money is valued over people. Like the story in the O.T. when Aaron led the Jews in worshipping the Golden Calf -- pretty much where we are today: the moral and spiritual desert.

Alva Goldbook commented on 10 Dec 2009

That might have worked about 5 billion people ago. We now have 8 billion and will see 11 billion within our lifetimes. 1 billion are starving to death as we speak. The planet can only reasonably sustain 1 billion people at any standard of living. The time for drastic action is fast approaching. The longer we wait, the worse the situation will be.

Alva Goldbook commented on 13 Dec 2009

I seriously doubt that we will be using fossil fuels 50 years from now. The entire world is moving towards green energy very quickly. If we don't, then we'll be left behind and become a 2nd world nation. Our population will not likely continue of expand at the previous rate. If we don't address the issue ourselves, some virus will.

Alva Goldbook commented on 02 May 2009

The best way to control population growth is to give women equal rights world wide. However, we should discourage people from having more than 2 kids. I say increase your income tax rate by 10% for every kid you have past 2.

seamoremonster commented on 04 May 2009

Hey there is an answer to birth control... It's called famine. It's called war and it's brought to you by religion and intolerance. Our marine resource are not managed they are exploited.

Alva Goldbook commented on 12 Dec 2009

Using the oil sands is a question that's up in the air. It's only economical to use it if oil reaches around $150 a barrel. If green energy is cheaper, then green energy will be used.

seamoremonster commented on 04 May 2009

Too true...about 40% of our oxygen supply is produce via ocean born plankton that inhabit the top layers of seawater...that area most effected by oil spills, pollution etc.

New Approaches to Preventing Epidemics Transmitted by Mosquitos

Gates: Can Autopsies Stop Epidemics?

Vaccine Vision: Preventing epidemics, the virus hunt continues- Joseph Fair