Originally Posted by
JessTD
new orleans had it
china has it
majority of the time it could have been presented. especially with all the aid that our government as well as the europeans fork over .... the problem is half these third world governments are corrupt and the people too meek to rise up and say something.
and you don't need money or materials or education to prepare ... common sense should tell you don't build next to a volcano, don't build next to a giant hill that is just like every other hill that causes mudslides each year ... don't build a city in a giant depression protected only by levys
it doesn't work for every situation i agree but most of the time like i said it's preventable. at least on teh scale that you see it
You need to see the world my friend... you need to explore those places and see the politics and education these people have. Unlike what you think you do need an education to rise up agaisnt a government, you need education to realize the land youre ancesters have lived on for thousands of years might be prone to such disaters, you need support to move to a land with less risks.
IMO you're blinded by the comfort level we have here in the "developped world" and you wouldn't imagine how some people live in the world. I'm not talking how they live in shacks, i'm talking relize that what seam common sense to you is actaully from education, support, ressources. All of that which we take for granted a third of the world lives without.