for it's size great britain has more tornados than any other area in the world.
for it's size great britain has more tornados than any other area in the world.
As long as it is really only 1 type of Natural Disaster I would take if over ALL the natural disasters that hit the US every year. Volcanoes, Tornados, Hurricanes, Thunder Storms, Avalanche, Landslides, Blizzards, Earthquakes, Floods, droughts and more.
bloody africans hogging all the sympathy.
I didn't ask for sympathy.
You claim that these countries should be left to "sort their isht" out, and that we shouldn't claim responsibility. I claim that it's our responsibility, as the first world countries, to help them, and that by inaction we would create more criticism than if we were to do something. You most likely either use public transport or drive/own a car or other motorised vehicle, obviously run on petrol. Whoops, looks like most of this oil comes from these very same countries that you're suggesting that we just leave to attempt to pull themselves out of poverty. But what about the miraculous neighbouring countries? Surely they can help.Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm
Yep. They have to learn to work together in a time of disaster. They need to help each other out. If their neighboring countries don't give athen why should we...a place half way around the world with nothing to gain but critisim? If they spent any time trying to make their countries better instead of oppressing minorities with violence they would be better off. They need to get their
Let's consider Niger shall we?
http://land.heim.at/toskana/210137/L...ika/nigerk.jpg
Niger is bordered by Mali, Algeria, Libya, Chad, and of course Nigeria. Now, the average Gross National Income of each country is $2,506,180,000, $51,028,000,000, Below 0 Billion, $1,592,450,000 and $37,132,000,000. That's a total of $92,258,630,000. America makes $9,780,000,000,000. So let's put that into perspective. If every one of these countries were to give away EVERY SINGLE PENNY THEY MADE, it still wouldn't match even 1% of the spending power of the US. This isn't even including the likes of Japan or Germany (even the UK could cover that cost with 6% of it's Gross National Income).
So, it looks like we hold the responsibility, the power and the money to make a difference. Still, fudge 'em all ay?
There is no signature here. Move along.
You know this is just so stupid, look at the mess, rich countries could deliver a forkload of help but they leave them to do it themselves instead.
Do the job, tell them what to do then next time send lesser help again and again untill they get the message.
LET THE HAMMER FALL
It is my personal opinion that there are far too many people on the planet and nature, as always, is doing her balancing act and levelling out the numbers.
Yes, it sounds cruel. Yes, it sounds nasty. But nature has to preserve the world and if it means killing off millions of people, then there's no second thought.
Why does everyone bring up Niger? Put one more g in the name and no one would speak the name...except me because I am just that cool
Seriously though THEY need to get their
ed I disagree with you and I think you're wrong in pretty much everything
you've said. Just thought I'd let you know.
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The thing with telling them to organize themselves out, I disagree with on many levels, but I'll only name one and leave the rest to others. So if they don't fix themselves enough for you to want to help them, that's a small minority making that choice most of the time, they're usually not the ones most hurt, so what's in it for them. Meanwhile the people we should be helping have very little power usually and couldn't change much. And oh yeah, by what you said if they fail to reach that point we leave them, so that their kids who did nothing, they deserve to live lives with aids and poverty to, good to know they earned it (this is what it sounds like what you said would immediately lead to). And all the people with no power good to know it's their fault. If I mistook what you said sorry but this is what it sounded like.
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Best comment against me yet and no, I am not being sarcastic. I do not disagree that my view on a lot of this is way out there though
'Cause we're Humans. Even if some massive disaster struck which reduced the worldwide population to like 500,000 people we'd do our damndest to survive. We cling to life just as strongly as any other species*, but we also have the brains and tools to fix things which would crush most other species. Short answer: We screw each other merrily, but Humanity as a whole is way too damn stubborn to let a little thing like several million deaths stop us.
*Sentience has created some anomolies such as depression and suicide, but even most of us headcases are about survival when it comes right down to it.
the human race survived being reduced to 1,000. we can cope with a whole load.
Yes, I was thinking about a much smaller number but I suspect that too low would result in simply too wide a dispertion of people, and hardly anyone would find anyone else. This is persuming that people survived randomly around the planet, rather than in some haven or enclave of safety, in which case I'd happily say that the race would survive with 200 people, possibly even fewer.
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