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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.
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(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.