Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google.org, earlier wrote an illuminating article title, The Spreading Epidemic. In said article, Brilliant tackled about the bountiful catastrophe that cripples today's existence.

Larry wrote:
Today we have even better electronic trolling services. Google has invested billions of dollars in search capacity. The company is providing these tools to a consortium of disaster-response organizations to provide earlier detection and coordinated response to pandemics and other disasters.

Signs of catastrophe abound. The nonnative tiger mosquito, a vector for diseases including dengue, yellow fever and encephalitis, is expanding its range across North America and is set to displace more benign native species on the back of climate change. Now able to thrive at higher altitudes, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, which cause 1.5 million to 2 millions deaths a year, are about to spread into northern Europe and the highlands of tropical Africa.

To remedy the situation, Larry said the population growth must be reduced through education. He added, "We must invent better desalinization methods and prepare for a new Green Revolution with seeds that will thrive in a brackish world. And we must develop an early-disease-detection-and-response system, a sort of AWACs for epidemics. That requires networked technology plus a human network of cooperative efforts by scientists, governments, nonprofit groups, businesses and ordinary people."