[极端斯蒂芬之声]：这个故事包含了一切：一艘高速超级游艇，一支秘密灾难打击部队，一个谷歌联合创始人，还有草莓冰淇淋。

《每日野兽》的马克·哈里斯讲述了一个关于全球支持与发展（GSD）的荒诞故事，这是一个由谢尔盖·布林创办的灾难慈善机构，由他以前的保镖管理。故事的开头详述了去年飓风多里安袭击巴哈马后，GSD如何以医疗和道路清理人员的形式提供救灾。

For the past five years, GSD has been quietly using high-tech systems to rapidly deliver humanitarian assistance during high-profile disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic. These range from drones and super-yachts to a gigantic new airship that the outfit apparently hopes will make it easier to get aid supplies into disaster zones.

And just as Google famously treats—or, pre-COVID-19 lockdown, treated—employees to catered lunches, free gyms, and on-site massages, some of GSD’s humanitarian workers have enjoyed strawberry ice cream and freshly laundered clothes on board Brin’s super-yacht during disaster deployments.

该组织于2015年在帕姆飓风袭击瓦努阿图后成立。布林价值8000万美元的游艇“蜻蜓”号在附近航行，船上有医生和医护人员，船员们决定立即行动起来。

Making landfall at remote islands north of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila, the Dragonfly’s team reportedly moved 62 metric t*** of fresh water ashore, treated over 250 patients, facilitated three medical evacuati***, and built shelters in multiple villages.

《每日野兽报》指出，布林的慈善事业类似于硅谷亿万富翁（见：马斯克、埃隆和盖茨、比尔）试图产生重大影响的其他慈善行为。GSD甚至表示，它参与了COVID-19的救援工作，在加利福尼亚州建立了驱车测试中心，并向美国8个州提供了物资。

在GSD工作的人中，大约有一半有军人背景。并不是每个人都对由前军事人员组成的灾难救援部队的想法感到兴奋，不管这是多么善意：

...[T]he use of ex-military personnel for humanitarian and c***ervation work is also controversial, according to Rosaleen Duffy, a professor of politics and international relati*** at the University of Sheffield. “They can arrive in complex situati*** with little understanding of the local context. They bring with them modes of thinking and acting, such as seeing certain groups of people as ‘the enemy’ to battle against.”

无论布林的动机是什么，这都是一个引人入胜的故事，故事中有很多细节，讲述了一位亿万富翁在慈善事业上的低调投资，以及他对飞艇的迷恋。强烈建议抽出时间查看每日野兽的完整故事。