To save the world,

We need to dig wells, and we need to teach locals to run them.
We need to teach them how to farm sustainably and profitably. We need to teach them how to sew or to teach, to start up business. We need microcredit.

We need education, we need ARVs, we need condoms, we need hospitals.

We need plumbing installed, sewage treated, roads built, schools opened, power installed.

We need a large group of efficient, dedicated, retrainable, able-bodied people, instantly deployable around the world.

That's right. We need to rededicate the army.

We need to retrain them. We could get well-builders out inside of six weeks, and experts to train the locals within ten. Within a year we could have full-scale infrastructre being installed and handed over.

We need support at home. We can call it the 'War on Poverty'. Let's apply the lessons from down south for good, not evil.

We need propaganda posters. We need the rhetoric. We need the public on side.

We need the money. We need rationing at home. We need every person to 'do their part'. We need to adjust spending, we need to issue Victory Bonds, we might even need to run a deficit.

We'll need equipment, and materials, and food, and socks. We'll need to recycle our soda cans and our war ships.

We'll need more people. We'll need recruitment, and signing bonuses. We may need the draft. This is war.

And we'll win it. Who can disagree? Who can conscientiously object? To use everything we've listed for good, for the first time. For the most momentous act of good in all of human history.

We need to start.