Collected Item: “What If We Had Been Better Prepared?”
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What If We Had Been Better Prepared?
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This object is a video taken from a Ted Talk done by Bill Gates in April of 2015, I found this video on Youtube.
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This story is important to me because I was raised to always be as well prepared as possible. In this video Bill Gates talks about options the worlds governments can take to help prevent and/or aid in global pandemics. The ideas he presents range in intensity, from increasing the amount of first responders to staging pseudo-war games for attacking the outbreaks most efficiently. The first time I remember a large scale disaster that could have been prevented, saved lives, time and money was the BP oil spill in the gulf of Mexico. The cost of the spill range from about 60 billion, reported by British Petroleum, to an estimated 140 billion. The spill and loss of lives, both human and oceanic, could have been prevented by the company implementing and following global operating policies for deep-water oil drilling.
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#REL101
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI&t=1s
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This was originally created as a Ted Talk, by speaker Bill Gates.
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2015-04-13