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South Sudan: floods threaten 800,000 – but there’s water on the moon!

South Sudan: Severe floods threaten 800,000 people Our teams are providing medical aid to cut-off communities as the threat of disease outbreaks grow msf.org.uk

I don’t understand, I really don’t. Please compare this with this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54666328

Water on the Moon could sustain a lunar base – BBC NewsHaving dropped tantalising hints days ago about an “exciting new discovery about the Moon”, the US space agency has revealed conclusive evidence of water on our only natural satellite… www.bbc.co.uk

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?WHERE ARE OUR PRIORITIES?
800,000 lives are at risk, because these people do not have access to proper sanitation. 2020 and with all the technology at our fingertips and we can’t even conserve water or prevent flooding! Land swamped in water, homes destroyed, people dying from malnutrition, sickness, and disease and despite all this rainfall Humanitarian Aid Agencies are having to distribute 60,000 litres of water!

How many times do natural events like this have to happen before the world says enough is enough?

The world is spending billions of $’s on Space Exploration so that people can go and live on a dark, inhospitable planet when they could be helping people here on Earth. When nations in this world could be spending Billions trying to improve lives here on Earth. 

South Sudan floods expose upside down world priorities

IMAGINE  If the people of South Sudan had proper sanitation if they had been able to conserve all this rainfall. Imagine, how they could have used it to grow crops, feed their livestock and turn the desert wasteland of South Sudan into green pastures. 

I understand that the world is facing the pressures of Climate Change and I understand that people are fearful, but what the world must do is turn these severe weather events to its advantage! We might get extreme storms and rainfall but IMAGINE if we were able to conserve it and especially in Third World Countries! If a Meteorological Supercomputer is able to predict exactly where rainfall is going to happen then why can’t we prepare and build temporary reservoirs and find ways to channel it and conserve it.

YOU WILL NEVER, EVER GET YOUR WISH OF GOING TO OTHER PLANETS COMPARABLE TO THE BEAUTY THAT IS IN THIS WORLD! IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU SEARCH,

NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY YOU WILL NEVER, EVER FIND A WORLD OR INHABIT A WORLD AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN NOW NOT WHILST THERE IS SO MUCH INEQUALITY, POVERTY AND SUFFERING!IT WILL NOT HAPPEN! FORGET ALL YOU AT NASA AND OTHER SPACE AGENCIES FORGET IT. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!YOU NEED TO GET YOUR PRIORITIES RIGHT.

YOU CAN’T EVEN LOOK AFTER THIS PLANET OR EVEN LOOK AFTER LIFE ON THIS PLANET!YOU TALK ABOUT ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, YOU HAVE NOT EVEN STARTED! YOU TALK ABOUT PEACE AND PROSPERITY – WHERE IS IT? https://sdgs.un.org/goals

THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable DevelopmentHistory . The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership.sdgs.un.org
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who/sustainability/environment/supercomputers
Our supercomputers – Met OfficeOur latest Cray supercomputer, or High-Performance Computer (HPC), takes in hundreds of thousands of weather observations from all over the world.www.metoffice.gov.uk

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/17/met-office-developing-worlds-most-advanced-weather-computer

Met Office developing world’s most advanced weather computer | UK weather | The GuardianThe Met Office’s supercomputer will help select the most suitable location for flood defences. Pictured, a family is rescued from Nantgarw, Wales, during Storm Dennis on 16 February.www.theguardian.com
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