I present to you all a list of the worlds biggest problems, and my simple solutions to most of them. That's why I titled this diary with the word 'mostly'. There will not be any scientific data to back up what I'm saying. No links either. Why would I need to justify everything that I posit with actual data? You folks are smart, do a google search or something!
Ok, well it seems to me that people love lists so without further adoo, join me below for my list of the World's biggest problems, and ideas that mostly solve them!
1. Mortality.
This is a big problem if you prefer to go on living, and since it is inevitable for us all, I have a simple solution.
Simply save the data for everything you do or say via implanted transmitters to a 'cloud' service, and keep a cloned, empty brained, frozen body handy for downloading all of this data to in the likely event of your eventual demise. The service could be called, 'Gotcha'.
Ok, so this is actually not possible yet, so let's put problem #1 in the 'mostly' solved category ok?
2. Water.
This is a big problem if you prefer to go on living as well. Water brings crops, jet ski's and bass fishing. Most people need at least one of these things. Solution?
Well, we could position some solar panels and windmills next to a pump that brings sea water out of the sea and into a solar/wind powered de-salination plant. Then we could use more solar panels and windmills to transport that water to where it is needed.
Problem solved.
3. Food.
Again, a big problem if you want to stick around. People like to eat everything. Well, those cows and pigs and chickens are not exactly necessary for nutrition, and they cause immense problems to our environment. I don't know much about the world but there seem to be at least a few healthy vegetarians in India.
Consider a 'Presidential Pardon' for at least one species of animal that you eat.
That will save an awful lot of land from de-forestation, and it will save a lot of people from smelling cesspools of pig crap.
Ok, so people will need more crops if they cut back on animals for food. See solution #2.
4. Global Warming.
Yea, dying in a flood, hurricane, or savage drought due to CO2 emissions is an unnecessary bummer. If we convert to a virtually all electric society, we can stop digging up oil for transportation within a few years. Sure, we'd have to make a crapload of more juice, but diarists on this site and others have made it clear that plenty of sunlight and wind cross our land each day to run everything, especially if we team up with our neighbors. Problem solved.
5. Sex
I got nuthin'.
6. Disease.
Oh man you have to feel for us humans. We get sick and that sucks. Well, lots of things that make people sick would never happen in the first place if we solved problems #2 and #3. Still many other common killers can be stopped, cured, or prevented with some common sense measures like vaccines, mosquito nets, and other medicinal regimens. How do we get people to stop fighting enough to deliver these things? That brings me to the next problem.
7. Arms.
Wow so many guns, all powered by Nitro. Who makes all of this nitro glycerin? I don't know but for the love of Peace it needs to be regulated better. How? Hell if I know. I just know that it isn't black powder that's blasting humans around the world to pieces.
So many insane problems around the world can not be solved while people roam around in lawless places with AK 47's and RPG's. It just can't possibly happen. Way, way, way too many bullets for a conversation. Arms control, let's work on it.
8. Slavery.
Being enslaved is a big problem for so many. Chances are, someone is a de-facto slave within a short distance from you, wherever you live.
Tyranny causes slavery, and promotion of Democratic ideals is the best way we have to end tyranny. Our own fragile democracy still suffers tyrants, but it used to be much worse. We killed each other in the civil war, and while things are bad, they are not that bad, so Democracy can work, and it seems to be the only hope for mankind. Ending Slavery means ending Tyranny, and that requires a strong Justice system in a Democratic society.
9. Prohibition.
Prohibiting the intake of intoxicating substances for the benefit of producers, distributors, and the prison systems of the world, is a big problem. Especially if you want to get high and remain outside of a hellish goulag. Or if you love someone sitting in a sickening, violent, murderous hell hole for getting high.
Fortunately, this solution is easy.
Make common sense rules that allow adults to do what they want with their own bodies. More importantly, more people need to stand up and say, 'Everyone gets intoxicated in some way, some time, and it's not all good or all bad!' That's a good starting point for change.
10. Health care.
All the vaccines in the world won't remove a sick appendix. For that, a skilled surgeon is all that will do. I couldn't possibly afford this kind of surgery if I needed it (I don't). This is a problem, because a sick appendix shouldn't be a death sentence. Solution? Don't charge me 50K if I need my appendix taken out.
It's so obvious that a human is not a car. You don't total a human because the surgery is more expensive than the value of the person. Duh. Insurance is for stuff, not for living bodies! Bodies need care, not insurance.
Well, now that I have solved, mostly, the worlds biggest problems, I suppose I can make an extra cup of coffee and figure out how to play 'Bell Bottom Blues' before my first student gets here.....