Disasters... not all that natural...
The earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and Turkey... Hurricane K in New Orleans... Dense fogs and driving rains and 70-car pile-ups... Nature does what it does. It isn't doing anything new. The disasters are not of nature but of our own unreadiness for the predictable, the inevitable. Where are the common sense and foresight to be prepared? What if the billions of recovery dollars going to Haiti now had gone years ago, to break the poverty there, and to build properly, to preserve human life and... Sign in to see full entry.