Amy Smith: Simple designs that could save millions of childrens' lives

http://www.ted.com Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal.

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[pimpine2]

Save the world Amy!

[rjamesgoebel]

I will vote for her, no doubt.

[MrJivePirate]

@MABLENGE NICE BRO ^____^

[deathbydullcubicle]

@NinjaHotel It is a selfish act but you're wrong to generalize selfishness as an entirely bad thing. So what if people want to feel good about themselves for helping others out - isn't that what motivates everyone to do things?

[foxymophandlemaaa]

And most important, we need to find some technology that evaporates all politicians, religion and greed in the world. Thats the cause of starvation, wars and 3th world countries. Until then, we are only bucketing water from a boat that's is sinking as faster then the bucketing.

[MABLENGE]

i would love to collect a few black children and put them in a pillow case and hang it from the celling and use it as a punching bag

[MegaLittleGymnast]

nerd8)



[MrAppleseed88]

We have to kill off the 3rd world to save the planet. you stupid cunt. the more 3rd world scum you save, the more elephants die the more lions die, the more nature dies. the 3rd world are useless eaters, they consume everything and they contribute nothing. they are a waste and they have to die now!

[NinjaHotel]

And by the way, people only help others, because they wanna feel good of themselves.. pretty selfish act seems to me...

[NinjaHotel]

I keep thinking about should welfare countries really help third world countries? I mean, Earth is so overpopulated. Somewhere people have to die... but luckily there are hurricanes and earthquakes in the world. Democracy really loves to feed the needys... but the more are needys in the world, the less are hard working people who actually build up a welfare sociaty, not very natural act....ugh, i may get lynched now...

[CommentsSurvey]

But if we manage to do all this, people will HAVE to start using birth control. No question about it!