Sunday, July 31, 2011

[Mind's Eye] Re: When is a natural disaster a natural disaster?

When Nature is to blame vs rotten governments/economics? I read the
population of Africa will rise 49% by 2050 and world population will
be 9 billion. I'll be dead. :-)

On Jul 30, 7:43 am, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Listening to some tv coverage of the humanitarian disaster (yet again)
> unfolding in the Horn of Africa, i learnt from a knowledgeable
> commentator that in order to respond appropriately, global aid and
> humanitarian quasi-governmental organisations actually have to
> classify a disaster by a fatality ratio; which got me thinking. When
> is a natural disaster a natural disaster?

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