[sliverstorm]

It's a prisoner's dilemma sort of thing. The best outcome for ME is if YOU dump lots of money into it, so I sit around on my hands hoping you take action, while YOU do the same waiting for ME to take action. As a result, we arrive at the worse outcome- nobody does anything.

[danieltillett]

This is the philosophical explanation for government taxation. In this particular case I think we can say that it is now beyond voluntary funded NGOs to solve.