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Dec. 14th, 2009 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI watched a documentary based on the book 'Guns, Germs and Steel'
I now have this urge to apologise on behalf of my entire continent. Colonising: not a nice idea.
And as for what smallpox did... *shudders*
Also the bit at the end made me decide to go send all my charity money for the year to fixing malaria. Which is easier said than done. There's a mosquito nets gift on the Oxfam gift site, but if I'm spending it all at once I could get the essential medicines set. Usually I just spend on clean water. Water also important.
They're supposed to be gift cards to give out, but the message that sends seems complicated, so no.
There's other charities. I could do more research and find one that does something particular. But Oxfam has the advantage I can take my charity coin stash, walk in the door, and pour it in the collection box, though I don't know if I can get Unwrapped gifts that way.
Sometimes I watch a documentary and I get angry I didn't know that stuff before. Seems like important stuff.
Between this and the one about 'how many people can we fit on the planet' (answer: depends, how do you want to live?) I've been getting that feeling.
I now have this urge to apologise on behalf of my entire continent. Colonising: not a nice idea.
And as for what smallpox did... *shudders*
Also the bit at the end made me decide to go send all my charity money for the year to fixing malaria. Which is easier said than done. There's a mosquito nets gift on the Oxfam gift site, but if I'm spending it all at once I could get the essential medicines set. Usually I just spend on clean water. Water also important.
They're supposed to be gift cards to give out, but the message that sends seems complicated, so no.
There's other charities. I could do more research and find one that does something particular. But Oxfam has the advantage I can take my charity coin stash, walk in the door, and pour it in the collection box, though I don't know if I can get Unwrapped gifts that way.
Sometimes I watch a documentary and I get angry I didn't know that stuff before. Seems like important stuff.
Between this and the one about 'how many people can we fit on the planet' (answer: depends, how do you want to live?) I've been getting that feeling.