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Published online 24 April 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.400
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Tech titans plan to save the planet
Former Google philanthropy chief targets climate change and the Middle East.
Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who helped to eradicate smallpox, is to leave his job as head of Google.org, the search giant's philanthropic arm, to lead the Skoll 'Urgent Threats Fund', created this month by Jeffrey Skoll, former founding president of eBay and head of the Skoll Foundation.
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Those big minds always give us surprises.Although the money is not big compared with their goal, the idea is admirable and also important to our world.
Feel so good that people are actually reacting to what s happening around us...way to go larry an jeff... god bless u ...
Surely one of the [top?] five threats facing humanity and the planet would have to include overpopulation and population growth.