Bill Gates has this thing called Gates Letter addressing three myths:
<ul>
<li>Foreign Aid Is A Big Waste</li>
<li>Saving Lives Leads To Overpopulation</li></ul>
That these are myths is discussed in detail HERE.
In a related project, Bill Nye has made this video dispelling an overlapping set of myths:
And here’s Bill Gates’ “Viral Video”
Important cause. Not sure if that video is going to go viral, though.
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My son was born just after the beginning of the year. To mark the occasion, I researched some ways in which the world of today is better than the world I was born into, in 1980.
Infant mortality has fallen by 50% worldwide and in the USA. It’s fallen by three-quarters in India and China. Global under-5 mortality has also dropped by half.
All of this not in a century but in a single generation. We may have screwed up in any number of ways, but surely we’ve done something right.