Responding to Catastrophe

tw · 03-14-2011, 03:21 AM

Johnstown's Flood in 1889 was one of America's greatest disasters. Japan has had about 100 Johnstown's all at once.

And then multiple Three Mile Islands - simultaneously. Already, Japan has had two reactors fail worse than anything in Three Mile Island. And maybe a third is now going down.

11 September is trivial compared to this. Did anyone remember a potential massacre that may soon happen in Libya? A few hundred thousand here. A few hundred thousand there. After a while, its just numbers. No wonder so many are so interested in Charlie Sheen.

tw · 03-14-2011, 03:33 AM

You want to read this...

Maybe even worse to come.

GunMaster357 · 03-14-2011, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by tw

A few hundred thousand here. A few hundred thousand there. After a while, its just numbers.

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." - Stalin

SamIam · 03-14-2011, 06:32 PM

The US is too polarized to come together in the face of tragedy. The people who lived a safe way from the disaster would just argue with each other while the people at the epi-center died. Gunmaster's quote is right on, unfortunately.

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03-14-2011, 03:21 AM	#1
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Johnstown's Flood in 1889 was one of America's greatest disasters. Japan has had about 100 Johnstown's all at once. And then multiple Three Mile Islands - simultaneously. Already, Japan has had two reactors fail worse than anything in Three Mile Island. And maybe a third is now going down. 11 September is trivial compared to this. Did anyone remember a potential massacre that may soon happen in Libya? A few hundred thousand here. A few hundred thousand there. After a while, its just numbers. No wonder so many are so interested in Charlie Sheen.

03-14-2011, 03:33 AM	#2
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	You want to read this... Maybe even worse to come.

03-14-2011, 06:32 PM	#4
SamIam Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Not here Posts: 2,655	The US is too polarized to come together in the face of tragedy. The people who lived a safe way from the disaster would just argue with each other while the people at the epi-center died. Gunmaster's quote is right on, unfortunately.

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