Thursday, August 12, 2010

Natural Disasters-Global warming?

Millions of people with natural disasters nowadays around the world. We here in the northeast are facing a drought like situation due to excessive heat and less rain. The situation in Russia is more critical with temperatures rising to more than 100 F in Moscow alone and wild fires consuming lots of area due to drought. The Russians have not experienced this sort of thing for a very long while and they are unable to cope with it. The mother of all disasters in terms of misery is being played out in Pakistan where according to the UN one fifth of the country is underwater and millions of people have lost their homes and desperate for food and shelter. On top of this misery has not stopped and more monsoon rains are coming.

With the worst monsoon to hit Pakistan since its birth in 1947, the impoverished country-the ground zero of all things combustible (nuclear weapons, Taliban, terrorists and the like) the civilian government even if it had the resources would have been overwhelmed and that is exactly what has been happening. The credibility of the civilian government or any government for that matter there is so low or even negative that people are reluctant to give to any charity associated with the government.

China and India are also having problems with rains but not too much. So what do we see in here. Is it a one time event or is it a long running Global Warming phenomenon. Any way you see it people really don’t care if it is man made or Nature induced. They need to find food and shelter and if that cannot be provided than the loose hope in any government capable or not and they can turn to radicalism since they don’t have anything to loose and the blame can easily shift to the government in power.

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