Medical authorities say that 30,000 Canadians will die in 1995 because of smoking. One sea captain who wasn't afraid to change was the now famous Captain James Cook. He stocked his ships with an ample supply of fresh fruits. The Royal Society honoured Captain Cook in 1776 for his success as an explorer, but the officials of the navy ignored his report about why his crew didn' t get scurvy. Because Cook changed, his sailors lived.
Positive change means life.
Not until 1794, the year of Dr. Lind's death, was a British navy squadron supplied with lemon juice before a voyage. On that voyage, which lasted twenty-three weeks, there was not one case of scurvy, yet another decade passed before regulations were enacted requiring sailors to drink a daily ration of lemon juice to prevent scurvy. The needless loss of life simply because masses of people were resistant to change was outrageous. For 251 years, sailors died all because people refused to change in the face of the evidence. Down through the centuries millions and millions of people has perished needlessly all because people were too stubborn to change.