Comments on: Coma in a coma http://www.tajder.com/archives/778 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:38:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Oliver http://www.tajder.com/archives/778/comment-page-1#comment-717 Oliver Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:38:44 +0000 http://www.tajder.com/?p=778#comment-717 People do not give money for this stuff because it helps, but because it makes them feel better. If you want to help, get in an airplane and start digging dead people out of the rubble, and building new houses for the alive ones. Or pay some of them a flight and let them stay at your home for 3 months. People do not give money for this stuff because it helps, but because it makes them feel better. If you want to help, get in an airplane and start digging dead people out of the rubble, and building new houses for the alive ones. Or pay some of them a flight and let them stay at your home for 3 months.

]]> By: Ana Tajder http://www.tajder.com/archives/778/comment-page-1#comment-713 Ana Tajder Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:47:50 +0000 http://www.tajder.com/?p=778#comment-713 I had a big discussion about Haiti with my mum. About the fact that no matter how much aid we send, we still cannot help. The country was missing basic infrastructure. So the question is, as you say, not if we should help, but when and how. Had we helped Haiti earlier, the catastrophe of those dimensions could have been avoided. So yes, let's start changing things we can influence - and let's start changing the attitude towards the whole planet. I had a big discussion about Haiti with my mum. About the fact that no matter how much aid we send, we still cannot help. The country was missing basic infrastructure. So the question is, as you say, not if we should help, but when and how. Had we helped Haiti earlier, the catastrophe of those dimensions could have been avoided.
So yes, let’s start changing things we can influence – and let’s start changing the attitude towards the whole planet.

]]> By: Oliver http://www.tajder.com/archives/778/comment-page-1#comment-710 Oliver Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:21:40 +0000 http://www.tajder.com/?p=778#comment-710 I think the bigger issue is that those thins we cannot prevent and hardly can fix (yes I know, if everyone gives 1 buck...) distract you from the things we should change directly in front of us. Of course we can all pay and make Haiti come back on its feet quicker. But it won't prevent the next earthquake. The people who cannot sleep because of the situation in Haiti should rather not sleep because of the CO2 they blast out while their TV is on standby at night. Fixing those things would save more people in the long run than 10 bucks sent to Tahiti. I think the bigger issue is that those thins we cannot prevent and hardly can fix (yes I know, if everyone gives 1 buck…) distract you from the things we should change directly in front of us. Of course we can all pay and make Haiti come back on its feet quicker. But it won’t prevent the next earthquake.

The people who cannot sleep because of the situation in Haiti should rather not sleep because of the CO2 they blast out while their TV is on standby at night. Fixing those things would save more people in the long run than 10 bucks sent to Tahiti.

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