escrito por Phelim McAleer |
It is only a matter of time before Environmentalists and some scientists blame the Haiti earthquake and its massive death toll on Global Warming. They have already laid the groundwork with this Sept 2009 article in the UK Guardian newspaper. According to Professor Bill McGuire, director of the Benfield Hazard Research Center, at University College London an upcoming scientific conference would show how "global warming threatens the planet in a new and unexpected way – by triggering earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches and volcanic eruptions." Despite these claims the earthquake in Haiti was not caused by Global Warming. And the death and destruction was not because Haitians had made a pact with the devil. The reason so many people died in Haiti is because its people live in poorly built houses and have not benefited from development which brings with it cities and houses which can withstand earthquakes. But guess who are the most active opponents of cities and modern concrete housing? For Begley rampant child mortality and horrible deaths in inadequate houses during earthquakes are small prices for others to pay as long we can visit them on eco-holidays. Environmentalists call this sustainable development but the only thing sustained is poverty. In the face of this massive earthquake it has meant visiting death and destruction on some of the poorest people on the planet. Shame on environmentalists, and shame on Ed Begley Jr. Fonte |
"O conformismo é o carcereiro da liberdade e o inimigo do crescimento." John Kennedy
sábado, 16 de janeiro de 2010
Earthquakes didn't kill Haitians - Underdevelopment did
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