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by rob_c 35 days ago
> With what money? There's a reason they're dependent on USAID.

How much does BASIC hygiene cost it's like manners. It's education (which is more than well funded at a "throw cash at it problem".

> we just dumped our excess production

Well in a nutshell, yes we'd dumping quite a lot on Africa, that doesn't mean we should shore up the system with yet another western derived screw-up. At this point I'll go for the good old star trek perspective of impacting a cultures development by suddenly advancing their technological position.

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Having clean water access, etc., is a little bit more than "education", in practice
Water + heat + sieve

Unless you have industrial pollutants in which case you also have someone to blame...

We didn't get this far as a species being that ignorant