A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis OVERVIEW The failures of Europe’s political and intellectual elites created the disaster Martin Wolf in his article Failing elites threaten our future in the Financial Times of January 15, 2014 opens with these …
A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis Dedicated to Green Acre Bahá’í School and to Rabi Musah whose presentation of One Common Faith sowed the seeds for this book In 1912 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá spent 239 days in America. On 17 August, …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 17: SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS The reused syringe and the blood and plasma systems Probably the most efficient amplifier was the reused syringe. The Yambuku 1976 Ebola epidemic was grossly amplified by the mission …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 17: SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS $178 billion a year from the world’s poorest nations to the richest Former CDC director Dr. William Foege felt that new disease emergence was tightly linked to Thirdworldization: the …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 17: SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS The largest short-term refugee migration in world history On April 6, 1994, an airplane was shot down over Rwanda during the final leg of its flight from Tanzania to …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 16: NATURE AND HOMO SAPIENS The organism hid in algal scum During the 1970s Rita Colwell, convinced that the entire oceanic crisis was directly imperiling human health by permitting the emergence of cholera …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 16: NATURE AND HOMO SAPIENS Large numbers of dead seals In 1987, Siberian fishermen and hunters working around Lake Baikal noticed large numbers of dead seals washing up along the shores of the …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 16: NATURE AND HOMO SAPIENS The microbes were winning That humanity had grossly underestimated the microbes was no longer, as the world approached the 21st century, a matter of doubt. The microbes were …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 14: THIRDWORLDIZATION No Peace Dividend appeared With the fall of the Berlin Wall politicians all over the world spoke of a Peace Dividend. The world had surplus cash and long-neglected social programs could …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 14: THIRDWORLDIZATION How could we even be thinking of 30% to 40% HIV seropositivity? Physically Subhash Hira had changed little over the years. But inwardly he was a very different man. Keeping track …
