[Leisler]

""These villagers in Ghana risk being poisoned every time they go to the river. They have no access to clean water, like one in every five people on Earth. It's the kind of problem that this summit is supposed to deal with."

Ah, can't they did a well? I mean, if your village can't get together to dig a well, I'm supposed to do it? I don't think so. Frankly, IMHO, close the book on Africa. Experiment failed, move on, lesson learned. I know the libs will be all over me. But they can go, be hero's for all I care. I'll even say they were right if they succeed. But arn't they Darwinists? Don't they drive around with little fish with feat that say darwin on their Volvos? Don't they say the world is overpopulated? Got to start somewhere, why not Africa? I, more than, don't care.

[FreeTally]

Frankly, IMHO, close the book on Africa. Experiment failed, move on, lesson learned.

I agree.

[steve in DC]

"Don't they say the world is overpopulated? Got to start somewhere, why not Africa?"

Now, be nice. Liberals are not as smart as some of us, and are sensitive when people point that out.

Yes, they claim the world is overpopulated, and even pushed the US to achieve "Zero Population Growth" years ago, which the US has, fundamentally, achieved. However, ZPG was not a big hit in Africa or Asia, where the overpopulation issues present significant problems to local economies and infrasructure.

Africa would be as good a place as any to begin work on reducing populations to sustainable levels, if reducing world population is one of the Liberals' goals. However, telling the Third World what they should do is never the goal of these events. Telling the US what we need to do is what these things are about.

But, please be sensitive when explaining this to Liberals. They have very fragile self-esteem.

[madvlad]

Hmmmm. My actions here in Maryland influence
what happens in Ghana? Hmmmmm. Must be
Chaos Theory!

Mad Vlad

[fone]

>>>"These villagers in Ghana risk being poisoned every time they go to the river. They have no access to clean water, like one in every five people on Earth. It's the kind of problem that this summit is supposed to deal with."

Ah, can't they did a well? I mean, if your village can't get together to dig a well, I'm supposed to do it? I don't think so.?<<<

As a pastor once said (about India/Ganges River):
"If, after 6000+ years of civilization they have not learned to drink from the same water they defecate in, there isn't much more we can do for them..."