Tsunami

[RussSchultz]

http://www.navy.mil/view_photos.asp?sort_type=1&sort_row=1

"Close up" pictures of the devastation. The website doesn't have permalink features, so you might need to go through a few pages before you find the pictures in question. They should look like:

http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/thumbnails/thumb_050102-N-9593M-040.jpg

http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=19968

 

[t0y]

I have no words........ :?

 

[RussSchultz]

What happened was truly terrible, but just to put it into context, 30,000 children die every day from poverty (disease, malnutrition etc). Not all but a lot of this poverty is caused by the west (in which I live) with its unfair trade practices with the third world. The tsunami was not preventable, but poverty is.

There will be 44 million orphans worldwide by the end of the decade, of the 2.1 billion children in the world, half of them live in abject poverty (on less than $1 per day) 120 million never go to school, and 11 million die from totally preventable causes every year, yet international agreements which exist to alleviate these issues are not enforced, and are most frequently violated by the United States.

You can help: http://www.cafod.org.uk/get_involved/campaigning/make_poverty_history/global_week_of_action

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/02/INGORAIISN1.DTL

 

[V3]

What happened was truly terrible, but just to put it into context, 30,000 children die every day from poverty (disease, malnutrition etc). Not all but a lot of this poverty is caused by the west (in which I live) with its unfair trade practices with the third world. The tsunami was not preventable, but poverty is.

There will be 44 million orphans worldwide by the end of the decade, of the 2.1 billion children in the world, half of them live in abject poverty (on less than $1 per day) 120 million never go to school, and 11 million die from totally preventable causes every year, yet international agreements which exist to alleviate these issues are not enforced, and are most frequently violated by the United States.

You can help: http://www.cafod.org.uk/get_involved/campaigning/make_poverty_history/global_week_of_action

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/02/INGORAIISN1.DTL

Not to sidetrack this tsunami disaster, but that article is completely ignorant of the collapse of the South East Asian economy just 6 or so years ago. The country that's part of this tsunami tragedy namely Indonesia, sees their financial sector, went into severe debt.

Figures talk is cheap. You just need to come down yourself and watch the poverty that these people experience.

 

[Roger Kohli]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/02/INGORAIISN1.DTL[/quote]

Russ, the facts in that article just don't add up:

The poor who are addressed in our lessons are the absolute poor -- the more than 1 billion people around the world who live on less than $1 per day. They have nothing, and they have no way of acquiring anything because of the governmental and social institutions that surround them (today 2005)

The bank predicts that the total number of those living in poverty will be halved between 1990 and 2015. Globally, that means that those living on $1 per day or less would drop from 1.2 billion in 1990 to 622 million in 2015

So its admitting that 60% of the way through the timescale (1990 - 2015) there has been very little reduction in the number of poor if any. Add to that the fact that 1$ in 1990 will be worth much more than 1$ in 2015....

How can a farmer in Africa possibly compete against a farmer in Europe who is paid to leave a field empty?

 

[London Geezer]

The bank predicts that the total number of those living in poverty will be halved between 1990 and 2015. Globally, that means that those living on $1 per day or less would drop from 1.2 billion in 1990 to 622 million in 2015

That's because the dollar is slowly dying and will be worth as much as a Turkish Lira by then.