“Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.” FoundForceWaterDecisionPovertyFourRiskSecurityDiseaseHundredUniversalThreatClimateClimate ChangeIncludingTerrorismInequalityAddressesMakersDiverseFamineLoomingDecision MakersFresh Water Author:Margaret Catley-Carlson
“Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are minorities, Native Americans, immigrants, and women living in poverty and who speak little or no English.” LittlesSufferingSpeakPovertyRiskPopulationNativeMinoritiesImmigrantsAffectedPrimePregnantNative AmericanComplicationPregnant Women Author:Robin Lim
“The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular, machine super intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology. Each of these has an enormous potential for improving the human condition by helping cure disease, poverty, etc. But one could imagine them being misused, used to create powerful weapon systems, or even some kind of accidental destructive scenario, where we suddenly are in possession of some technology that's far more powerful than we are able to control or use wisely.” KindHelpingPowerfulPovertyTechnologyImagineRiskPossessionBiologyHuman ConditionExistentialTechnologicalBreakthroughMisused Author:Nick Bostrom
“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.” PeoplePovertyRiskCommentMaliciousEleven Minutes Author:Paulo Coelho
“As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.” PeopleIfsBelieveMayLongGovernmentPovertyRiskSkyMilitaryWillingAdventureSkinsPopulationPainfulConvincedTyrannyFaithfulTreatmentControlledPoolOppressedResortsPromotingHereafterSuperfluousLifeguard Book:Skinny Legs and All Source: Skinny Legs and All