Saviour

SAVE CIVILIZATION:http://www.earthpolicy.org/
Read Plan B 3.0 online.

Ted Turner has distributed some 3,600 copies of Plan B 3.0 (by Lester R. Brown) to heads of state, cabinet members, Fortune 500 CEOs, the U.S. Congress, and the world’s 672 other billionaires, in his bid to play the epic role we all play already. For good or evil. Choose good! Apathy is unacceptable.

Get this (from chapter 7):Here's something from a 2001 WHO study analyzing the economics of health care in developing countries. It concluded that providing the most basic health care services, the sort that could be supplied by a village-level clinic, would yield enormous economic benefits for developing countries and for the world as a whole. The authors estimate that providing basic universal health care in developing countries will require donor grants totaling $27 billion in 2007, scaled up to $38 billion in 2015, or an average of $33 billion per year. In addition to basic services, this $33 billion includes funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and for universal childhood vaccinations.

Compare that (the entire planet having basic health care!) with the trillions our government has spent on the Iraq war. We are a sick, sick people. Let's heal ourselves.

The world as a whole has something like 48.2 Trillion dollars, total.

Lester says his plan to save humanity will only cost around $190 billion. If the U.S. were to pay, by shifting resources from the $492 billion spent on the military, it still would be spending more for military purposes than all other NATO members plus Russia and China combined.

About apathy, though. I don't think people who don't care about themselves or others or who wins should vote. And I don't think everybody should be an activist. Be happy, and spread the gospel of happiness. Activists can be miserable. Don't give in without a fight. In fact, don't ever give in. Be an obstinate s.o.b. Keep pushing that rock, Sisyphus. Maybe one day it will roll down the other side of the hill, and when you're over the hill, you can look back with pride. You can be king of the hill, king of the jungle, the lion with his pride, the king of beasts.