So, Rick Mercer has been to Rwanda. That is cool. So have I. I have something in common with Rick “skinny dipper” Mercer!
He actually travelled there with Belinda “I like my lapdogs a little on the trashy side” Stronach! That was even more an eyeopener!
It really strikes me how amazing it is that the rich like her can travel to nations with such abject poverty, some back and destroy the childhood of some kids by stealing their father from their mother. Well, then again Mercer does mention about how they visited the palatial homes of the rulers along the way. Maybe those were the parts she remembered: the privelege, the wantonness of despots.
He talks extensively about a program called Spread The Net. It is a program to get treated mosquito nets out to all the poor people of Africa to stop them from getting Malaria. He invokes Canadian’s hatred of the little blighters (the bugs, not the poor of Africa). I wonder if he realizes there is a cheaper, more easily distributed, and more effective way of accomplishing this aim of reducing Malaria. It is called DDT.
November 17, 2006 at 3:09 pm
He doesn’t say who paid for his trip, or why he waited 2 years to write about it.
November 17, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Maybe all those people that own the gold mines and others can start giving more to the poor and desperate Africans?
November 20, 2006 at 7:31 am
The reason he is talking about it now is likely precisely because DDT has been taken off the banned list. The nets will be touted as an alternative to DDT. I could be getting to cynical, but….