I hope that if his family chooses to have a state funeral. It will be a fitting send off of a great person and a good time for reflection. I appreciate this quote from the article:
I hope that if his family chooses to have a state funeral. It will be a fitting send off of a great person and a good time for reflection. I appreciate this quote from the article:
In a 1979 speech, [Carter] spoke semi-spontaneously for half an hour about a “crisis of confidence” – “a fundamental threat to American democracy … nearly invisible in ordinary ways”. Americans had fallen into a worship of “self-indulgence and consumption”, he said, only to learn “that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose”.
He was responsible for the eradication of Guinea worm in Africa. It took many decades of effort and he and the Carter center alleviated suffering for many millions of people. He put solar panels...
He was responsible for the eradication of Guinea worm in Africa. It took many decades of effort and he and the Carter center alleviated suffering for many millions of people.
I just checked Wikipedia: 14 cases of Dracunculiasis [warning: this is some Alien-level body horror stuff] worldwide last year, with a target of 2030 or so for full elimination. Carter had said he...
I just checked Wikipedia: 14 cases of Dracunculiasis [warning: this is some Alien-level body horror stuff] worldwide last year, with a target of 2030 or so for full elimination.
Carter had said he wanted to outlive the Guinea Worm. Close enough to say he basically did, given there were a million cases in 1990.
I hope that if his family chooses to have a state funeral. It will be a fitting send off of a great person and a good time for reflection. I appreciate this quote from the article:
He was responsible for the eradication of Guinea worm in Africa. It took many decades of effort and he and the Carter center alleviated suffering for many millions of people.
He put solar panels on the White House.
Ethics meant something to this man.
I just checked Wikipedia: 14 cases of Dracunculiasis [warning: this is some Alien-level body horror stuff] worldwide last year, with a target of 2030 or so for full elimination.
Carter had said he wanted to outlive the Guinea Worm. Close enough to say he basically did, given there were a million cases in 1990.