MzMia -> RE: Now Haiti!! The Big One/ Still don't believe the weather is changing??? (1/14/2010 6:24:26 PM)
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ORIGINAL: eyesopened MzMia: With the greatest of love and respect. One of the reasons these disasters seem so bad and so frequent is the simple fact that we have instantaneous communication which we didn't have a scant 60 years ago. Just 30 years ago, we wouldn't be on a message board discussing it. We hear and see these disasters as they happen because people have video on their cell phones, because we have cable and satellites and even better, competing news agencies just waiting for the next thing to instil fear (and thereby increase ratings) in every citizen. It's really only been a couple hundred years since there's been anyone keeping track of weather, maybe less. We don't have enough accurate historical data to really say this period of activity is more active or less than it was say 500 years ago. We know things are happening now because of the world wide communications we currently have. We really don't have much historical perspective to put on natural disasters. Some kind of major flood was recorded in ancient texts but since most of those texts are "religous" they are not believed and since no universal calendar was in place, we have little data to suggest exactly when "The Flood" happened or even how widespread that flooding may have been, if it happened. Thank you so much for this post, eyesopened. I have to agree with you, tazzy, Rich, and the other posters, about how media coverage the past 20 years or so is intense, overwhelming and in your face. They could not provide the coverage, the exact numbers, and all these statistics 50, 100 and especially 200 years ago. We have always had disasters and we always will. I agree to a point, BUT some of the weather {especially the extreme weather conditions} still cause my eyebrows to go up. Thanks again, for being diplomatic and not calling me a "paranoid poster"!
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