Saturday, June 17, 2006
The year of unnatural disasters
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Lava flows down Mount EtnaPosted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Alfie
(Richard Ingham - Sapa-AFP) from France.
Paris - In the space of a year, a tsunami, an earthquake, brutal storms and floods have claimed more than 300 000 lives and cost at least $100-billion in damage.
Humans prefer to view these catastrophes as the result of misfortune, of randomness, of the unfathomable forces of Nature, of the whim of gods or of God.
But the exceptional disasters of the past 12 months raise a far more difficult
Could mankind be to blame?
For many scientists, the deep pain from this year's string of disasters is to a very large degree man-made.
From the Mississippi delta to the mountains of Kashmir and the beaches of the Andaman Sea, governments failed in almost every case to respect the basic laws of sustainable development.
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Lava flows down Mount EtnaPosted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Alfie
(Richard Ingham - Sapa-AFP) from France.
Paris - In the space of a year, a tsunami, an earthquake, brutal storms and floods have claimed more than 300 000 lives and cost at least $100-billion in damage.
Humans prefer to view these catastrophes as the result of misfortune, of randomness, of the unfathomable forces of Nature, of the whim of gods or of God.
But the exceptional disasters of the past 12 months raise a far more difficult
Could mankind be to blame?
For many scientists, the deep pain from this year's string of disasters is to a very large degree man-made.
From the Mississippi delta to the mountains of Kashmir and the beaches of the Andaman Sea, governments failed in almost every case to respect the basic laws of sustainable development.
