Tsunami Affects Poor
I guess anyone who hasn’t been living in a cave for the last week knows about the tsunami in South East Asia. The death toll is estimated to be over 150,000 according to the UN. Every time I check the news the number seems to have gone up.
The death toll is about 30 times that of 9/11. Nature can be more destructive than humans. This time, there’s no one to blame. I wonder if that helps people to unite. No polarization or warmongering, just trying to move on and help people recover.
Sad how these things happen to those who can afford it the least. Not that I’m saying that I wished the tsunami had struck a more industrialized nation like the US or Canada. But if it had, measures would have been and still are in place for earlier warning. Less people would have died, and maybe it would have been easier to recover, too. Why is it that people who had the least had to lose more?
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