Most of the time they use prebought American commodities like subsidised grain.
This has a negative effect on the countries this "Aid" is given to.
Like the quote "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day," this temporary aid does nothing to actually help the country. It in fact depresses the grain prices of grain already grown in that country making it uneconomical for the farmers to grow anything that is subsidised agriculture in the states. (Instead they grow drugs to sell to the more developed countries.)
If the aid given by the U.S. government was a little less self-serving and a little more charitable, perhaps I would like the U.S. a little more.
The only countries I have knowledge about with mosquito eradication are France and the U.S.
France was a cesspool from run off from the alps before engineers practically terraformed their country and drained all the swamps (Thus was invented the French Drain).
The U.S. had similar operations. They also used a massive campaign of DDT which had trucks crossing the countryside covering everything in DDT. (I have heard stories of kids chasing the trucks around to play in the fog sprayed from them.)
It takes a tremendous effort to coordinate the type of campaign required to fix these problems. Some African countries still rely on DDT to control the mosquito populations.
Without the option of the vaccine, there is almost no option of control. The two countries previously mentioned benefited from a culture of fanatical patriotism. This gives people the replenishing energy state of mind to be able to survive the frightening amount of work that is required to terraform a landscape. Workers blindly obeyed the desire to rid the world (their country) of the menace plague. (The workers were motivated by language and not reward.)
The third world needs to get a huge group of very intelligent psychologically imbalanced people and controllably direct their unenviable focus to fix the problem. Or just pay some companies more money than the countries involved actually possess.
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More likely is that the nominators are packed into these schools. If you want to be nominated you now know where to find the nominators.
American Aid $$$ is rarely if ever CASH.
Most of the time they use prebought American commodities like subsidised grain.
This has a negative effect on the countries this "Aid" is given to.
Like the quote "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day," this temporary aid does nothing to actually help the country. It in fact depresses the grain prices of grain already grown in that country making it uneconomical for the farmers to grow anything that is subsidised agriculture in the states. (Instead they grow drugs to sell to the more developed countries.)
If the aid given by the U.S. government was a little less self-serving and a little more charitable, perhaps I would like the U.S. a little more.
The only countries I have knowledge about with mosquito eradication are France and the U.S.
France was a cesspool from run off from the alps before engineers practically terraformed their country and drained all the swamps (Thus was invented the French Drain).
The U.S. had similar operations. They also used a massive campaign of DDT which had trucks crossing the countryside covering everything in DDT. (I have heard stories of kids chasing the trucks around to play in the fog sprayed from them.)
It takes a tremendous effort to coordinate the type of campaign required to fix these problems. Some African countries still rely on DDT to control the mosquito populations.
Without the option of the vaccine, there is almost no option of control. The two countries previously mentioned benefited from a culture of fanatical patriotism. This gives people the replenishing energy state of mind to be able to survive the frightening amount of work that is required to terraform a landscape. Workers blindly obeyed the desire to rid the world (their country) of the menace plague. (The workers were motivated by language and not reward.)
The third world needs to get a huge group of very intelligent psychologically imbalanced people and controllably direct their unenviable focus to fix the problem.
Or just pay some companies more money than the countries involved actually possess.
I feel my idea is more workable.
And more fun.
Genesis Chapter 11.