G8 gives $50 billion to Africa

[Happydude]

whoa! welcome back? you've been gone quite long.


can't say i remember you though.




and i think it would be best instead of just giving them money, the countries could spend it themselves and get stuff done there...like build a few hospitals or something like that rather than letting africa do whatever it wants with it.

[Jonbo298]

Global Warming is more important then Africa. Thats all I'll say for this thread

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Global Warming is more important then Africa. Thats all I'll say for this thread

You can't be serious. There are millions being euthanized in Africa right now. Millions more are dying everyday from Hepatitis, AIDS and other diseases that we as westerners haven't had to worry about for 100 years like dysintary (sp?) and cholera. These are hard facts. Africa has been crapped on by the world long enough, and its time we invested more than just money in their well being.

Meanwhile global warming is still an unproven theory that has as many scientists claiming that it is reality as there are that believe that its a natural progression and fluctuation in the earth's temperature. The fact is that we just don't know enough about it and probably won't for a long time. Our base of knowledge on the subject only stems a little over 100 years, and we are trying to prognosticate what is going to happy thousands of years in the future. Its like Dennis Miller said on the Daily Show: "We comparing temperatures to those taken in 1904. We were out crapping in the woods in 1904, but yet we somehow mastered the measurement of the world's temperature?"

Is it an important issue? Yes, but not as important as all the problems Africa is having that are tangible and based in observable fact, and not theory.

[MuGen]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

You can't be serious. There are millions being euthanized in Africa right now. Millions more are dying everyday from Hepatitis, AIDS and other diseases that we as westerners haven't had to worry about for 100 years like dysintary (sp?) and cholera. These are hard facts. Africa has been crapped on by the world long enough, and its time we invested more than just money in their well being.

Meanwhile global warming is still an unproven theory that has as many scientists claiming that it is reality as there are that believe that its a natural progression and fluctuation in the earth's temperature. The fact is that we just don't know enough about it and probably won't for a long time. Our base of knowledge on the subject only stems a little over 100 years, and we are trying to prognosticate what is going to happy thousands of years in the future. Its like Dennis Miller said on the Daily Show: "We comparing temperatures to those taken in 1904. We were out crapping in the woods in 1904, but yet we somehow mastered the measurement of the world's temperature?"

Is it an important issue? Yes, but not as important as all the problems Africa is having that are tangible and based in observable fact, and not theory.

Sometimes Jonbo doesn't say smart things....no offense Jonbo, but that was lame to even remotely compare a natural phenomenon to people dying and poverty. What happens when global warming hits? It'll flood, and we'll worry about saving the PEOPLE who will be effected by it.