Maybe the world's not getting worse? Maybe things are actually getting better? (Thx to technology)
Hope for Hungry Children, Arriving in a Foil Packet
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/international/africa/08niger.htmlThe prescription given to mothers here is simple: give one baby two packets of Plumpy'nut each day. Watch him wolf them down. Wait for him to grow. Which he will, almost immediately: badly malnourished babies can gain one to two pounds a week eating Plumpy'nut.
“This product, it's beyond opinion - it's documented, it's scientific fact,” Dr. Milton Tectonidis, a Paris-based nutrition specialist for Doctors Without Borders, said in an interview here. “We've seen it working. With this one product, we can treat three-quarters of children on an outpatient basis. Before, we had to hospitalize them all and give them fortified milk.”
At Clean Plants, It's Waste Not
http://wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,68448,00.htmlEach week, hundreds of new Subaru and Isuzu cars and trucks roll out of the Subaru factory in Lafayette, Indiana. What doesn't come out of the plant is garbage. When the garbage truck rolls up to the curb in front of your house each week, it haul away more trash than is generated by the manufacturing processes at the factory.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/international/africa/08niger.htmlThe prescription given to mothers here is simple: give one baby two packets of Plumpy'nut each day. Watch him wolf them down. Wait for him to grow. Which he will, almost immediately: badly malnourished babies can gain one to two pounds a week eating Plumpy'nut.
“This product, it's beyond opinion - it's documented, it's scientific fact,” Dr. Milton Tectonidis, a Paris-based nutrition specialist for Doctors Without Borders, said in an interview here. “We've seen it working. With this one product, we can treat three-quarters of children on an outpatient basis. Before, we had to hospitalize them all and give them fortified milk.”
At Clean Plants, It's Waste Not
http://wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,68448,00.htmlEach week, hundreds of new Subaru and Isuzu cars and trucks roll out of the Subaru factory in Lafayette, Indiana. What doesn't come out of the plant is garbage. When the garbage truck rolls up to the curb in front of your house each week, it haul away more trash than is generated by the manufacturing processes at the factory.