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After seeing problems with the Red Cross response local storm relief (example: 40% of available emergency vehicles used for press conferences), reporter Laura Sullivan decided to look into what happened in Haiti, where the American Red Cross collected a whopping $500 million in donations.
Her report is damning. The largest proportion of these were to go into housing. The Red Cross built...wait for it...six houses. In one area where the Red Cross promised to spend $24 million, and even printed a brochure exclaiming over all that they accomplished, the local residents are unaware of any Red Cross activity.
Meanwhile the Red Cross refuses to provide more than a very high level overview of their projects. No financial figures are provided that would allow one to figure out how much of that $500 million was actually spent on relief, and where the rest of it went.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @09:13AM
Human corruption is the problem. We need to get rid of them. There will be no more resource shortages with no mouths to feed and no chance of theft with no hands left alive. Total Genocide is the solution.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @09:23AM
You'd be surprised, but I agree. Our biology is problematic. Another solution is not to alter the environment, but ourselves. Going to mars might be easier not with a giant habitation dome, but if we are enhanced to survive the conditions bare. Creating housing for people might not be a problem if people didn't NEED houses to begin with. I do not consider the human body to be a machine that is so special it cannot be altered pulled apart and put back together like any other machine would be, or that we couldn't just create a new seed that's just better at survival than we are.
I just think drone technology is closer at hand to rapid build houses than genetic engineering is. Both solutions eliminate a 'big daddy' organization of people which appears to be the crux of the problem.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 07 2015, @12:29PM
Actually we don't strictly need houses (at least in most of the world); it's just damn more convenient to live in a house.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by penguinoid on Monday June 08 2015, @01:08AM
Is it really that convenient to live in a house (consider the cost/inconvenience of heating, repairing, maintaining individual kitchens, bathrooms, yard, etc)? Personally, I really enjoyed living in a dorm, with a cafeteria.
RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.
(Score: 2) by Daiv on Monday June 08 2015, @02:19PM
The conveniences of living in a dorm did not outweigh the stress of loud, rude, sociopathic neighbors who ruined any chance of good resting periods. Not sleeping well for periods of time can lead to all kinds of problems. By the time some sort of dorm that addressed all of that would be planned and built, the cost of which likely wouldn't be much better than a small house.
(Score: 1) by penguinoid on Monday June 08 2015, @06:38PM
Sound-proofing isn't really that expensive.
RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @07:24PM
> Sound-proofing isn't really that expensive.
Said the person who has never actually tried to install effective sound-proofing.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday June 10 2015, @06:59PM
And that dorm was under open sky? I would bet it was in a house.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Sunday June 07 2015, @05:38PM
I agree in principle, however there are severe limits on what can reasonably done in terms of adapting humans to alien environments.
>Going to mars might be easier not with a giant habitation dome, but if we are enhanced to survive the conditions bare
Good luck engineering humans to be fully photosynthetic at insolation levels 40% of what they are here on Earth, because our cells burn sugars and fats for energy, and you need free oxygen for that to happen, which is unavailable on Mars. There might also be potential for chemovores, but the power levels available there tend to be even lower, especially on a planet without significant tectonic activity - the source of most readily accessible non-biological chemical energy on Earth.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday June 07 2015, @09:46PM
Many have already tried the "pulling apart" part of it, but all of them failed the "put back together" one*
* At least under the assumption of "works as well as new or better"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @05:40PM
Human corruption is the problem. We need to get rid of them. There will be no more resource shortages with no mouths to feed and no chance of theft with no hands left alive. Total Genocide is the solution.
Read blessed scroll of genocide. Choose @ as class.