or yeah I think it's a great question I'm I'm often asked to compare the eradication of polio with the eradication of small pox um because of course we didn't even have telegrams wehad Telex machine Ma and uh no personal computers no computers no cell phones no
Accessibility, that's all over Lewis Strauss' statement that I quoted for you. Eradication . The way you get rid of bad things is you just-- it's like your iPhone where you just flick the screen and it goes away.And this was the sort of imagination of how technology would liberate us from the scourges of hunger
I think, Sarah, you had some questions. to support socially the eradication of homelessness, then yes.
had had that in small pox um we probably could have cut the time that it took us to eradicate in half uh small pox eradication cost $150 million in $1 1967 you know call it a billion we reap those benefits every week in the world
And I think with things going their way, with maybe other countries supporting the Taliban less, They've tried eradication . That hasn't been successful.
"There shall be peace on Earth, but not until all children daily eat their fill. Does the hunger eradication go warmly clad. It should be against the winter wind.
Here is what Tony was able to connect. So let's start back with the eradication of that virus. That virus was somehow suppressing wildebeest and buffalo populations.
not just from the lack of suffering and the lack of disease but even in the little yellow cards we used to have to carry going across airports I think polio eradications already cost about 10 billion so having the technology alone is not enough I'll just say one
So I was doing all kinds of research. I mean everything from counting invasive ants to plant eradication , invasive species eradication , to rattlesnake tagging, foxes, all kinds of stuff. And just a plethora of different species without having a true specialty, even though I had specialty degrees.
Not said explicitly, although people and arch conservative leaders in the past have said that explicitly about despised minority groups in their society. And it was an excuse or a justification for eradication of those groups. Well, what do we do?
Time is short. Maybe the child will still die despite your effort. It's not going to succeed in terms of smallpox eradication .
anyway and people sort of managing their own affairs completely autonomously and that was cool. But they also did things like withdraw support for mosquito eradication programs, the idea being IMF would set the terms for debt rescheduling and demand various budget cuts. In this case, there was a program that had been put in 50 years before to wipe out malaria in the highlands which had been very successful, people had all lost their immunity but they
We knew it. Then be tried to link this whole issue with education. Right from the beginning, I was advocating that eradication of child labor and education for children are the two sides of same coin. We have to ensure that the government have good policies, good programs, good investment on education for children, has preventive measures as well as rehabilitative measures.
You've supported us all along. And we have to make sure that when we decide to enter and vaccination or eradication , it is also considered a priority for the communities that
Time is short. Maybe the child will still die despite your effort. In the 20th century-- it's again from the health area-- smallpox killed more than 300 million people up to its eradication in the 70s, so a huge evil
Time is short. Maybe the child will still die despite your effort. But we were able to beat it and have since saved an estimated 60 to 120-- some uncertainty there-- million lives since the eradication .
communication technology what could you do differently today and and what are the targets that we could eradicate or or yeah I think it's a great question I'm I'm often asked to compare the eradication of polio with the eradication of small pox um because of course we didn't even have telegrams we
So that's really the way that I see the future of development happening is that in countries like Rwanda, where the government cares about the public's health and really cares about real development and poverty eradication , it's going to be between the public sector and the private sector.
and unify is part of the spiritual conversation and part of the spiritual journey. People don't really think about spiritual tools being used for collective action, and for systemic change, and for the systemic eradication of injustice. I like that. I like that a lot.
It should be against the winter wind. And thus released from hunger, fear, and need." There's the eradication myth and then a unity and universalism at the social level, as well.