World Poverty
- ~760 million people live under $2/day
- $1T spread globally would still be only ~$1,315 per person
- UBI trials show people often work more, not less
- More spending goes toward food, health, and stability
- Women’s empowerment and civic engagement increase
- Targeted cash programs raise long-term income
- Education-linked aid reduces dropout rates sharply
- Education improves lifetime earnings and wellbeing
- Poverty traps persist due to upfront cost barriers
- Durable investments can break recurring expense cycles
Cure All Diseases
- Large pandemic spending demonstrated high ROI of preparedness
- Major disease burdens remain preventable or treatable
- Malaria causes hundreds of millions of cases and high child mortality
- Tuberculosis still kills ~2M people annually
- Tropical diseases affect over a billion people yearly
- Goal is near-zero lethality rather than zero illness
- Health investments often yield strong economic returns
- Vaccine development and distribution are the main bottlenecks
- Vaccines have historically produced very high ROI in low-income regions
- Cell mapping improves understanding of disease at a biological level
- Advances in cell biology enable regenerative and precision medicine
- Large-scale funding across diseases could accelerate global health gains
Climate Change
- CO₂ is the major greenhouse gas
- Emissions have risen sharply, especially in recent decades
- Atmospheric CO₂ increased from 280 ppm to 420+ ppm
- Warming above 2°C could displace hundreds of millions via sea level rise
- Long-term economic damage could reach tens of trillions
- Urgency exists to limit warming to 1.5°C
- Fossil fuel demand is still projected to grow in coming years
- Coal expansion continues in major economies
- Large-scale transition costs are high but offset by long-term savings
- Renewables are increasingly cost-competitive
- 100% renewable energy systems are technically feasible
- Main barrier to transition is political rather than technical
- Net-zero transition requires major global investment
- Large-scale decarbonization could create millions of jobs