Michael Crichton, at a debate on global warming, had this to say about priorities:
“Every day 30,000 people on this planet die of the diseases of poverty.
A third of the planet doesn’t have electricity.
We have a billion people with no clean water.
We have half a billion people going to bed hungry every night.
Do we care about this? It seems that we don’t.
It seems that we would rather look a hundred years into the future than pay attention to what’s going on now.”
