677 Insurers to Natural Disasters--"Stop It!"
``The terrible effects spreading all around the Indian Ocean and reaching as far as the Horn of Africa are a further reminder of the global threat from natural catastrophes,'' executive board member Stefan Heyd wrote in Munich Re's annual disaster report."They underline our long-standing demand for prompt and rigorous measures against global climate change. After the disappointing outcome of the recent climate summit in Buenos Aires, time is running out." Reuters Story here.
2004 will be the second most expensive disaster year for insurers, second to 1995 which had the devastating Kobe earthquake.
And how about that Jan Egeland of Norway who first called the US stingy in its response and now is backtracking. I personally wouldn't give a nickel to the United Nations after the way it misused the oil for food program. Find a good church agency like Mennonite Central Committee or Lutheran World Relief that has low overhead and a small administrative staff and put your relief money there.
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3 comments:
Money talks. Perhaps some politicians will become motivated to act for the common good.
Lumping earthquake damage in with global warming is a political trick. Even if no business or home or any type of development had been located on the beaches, there would have been tourists.
You're absolutely right: earthquakes have nothing whatsoever to do with global warming. They are two separate realities, but realities they both are.
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