To answer the question "Who has done more good for the planet, Mother Teresa or Bill Gates?”
Bill Gates, hands down and no question.
The Gates Foundation is a huge and wonderful philanthropic organisation which aims to cure disease and save lives.
Mother Teresa was a deeply and conservatively religious person who wanted to build nunneries and save souls. Her famous houses for the dying are not hospitals. (Nurses are known to reuse needles after rinsing them in cold water.) By badly stretching the truth you could call them hospices, but it's a very bad hospice that forbids the use of anaesthetics. She didn't want to salve the pain of the dying. She said it was a wonderful gift that brought them closer to Jesus. Look it up, it's easy to check. She thought that the suffering of the poor was the most beautiful thing. When excellent PR won her the Nobel Peace Prize, she used the opportunity of her speech to tell the world that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world was abortion (a position, by the way, well aimed to keep up that wonderful suffering).
I'm sure she was well intentioned, but her work was in service to her religion, not the real, physical and medical needs of the poor.
Yes, in hindsight, under modern standards, there were some realities she rejected that cast doubt on the effectiveness of her work. But overall, she probably helped a ton of people, even if it was also in the service of her religion.
hi @donkeypong my friend how are you ?. excellent publication this is one of the reasons I love your blog. Mother Teresa of Calcutta "was a Catholic nun of Indian nationalized ethnic Albanian origin, who founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950. For more than 45 years she assisted the poor, the sick, the orphans and the dying, at the same time as she was guiding the expansion of her congregation, initially in India and then in other countries of the world, after her death, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II, her canonization was approved by Pope Francis in December 2015, after The Congregation for the Causes of Saints recognized as extraordinary the healing of a terminally ill Brazilian, the official act of canonization took place in Rome on the morning of Sunday, September 4, 2016. " Without a doubt, it was a very important symbol for many people and above all representing the woman with everything she did. Thank you for this wonderful publication, it really deserves a lot of votes, at least on my part you have mine, if I could give you more I swear I did. Thank you. I hope you're fine.