forty thousand
by John at 12/28/2004 08:39:00 AM
Nature laughs at our puny attempts to hurt each other.
Proving once again who really runs things on this planet, in one fell movement Sunday Nature killed upwards of 40,000 people as an earthquake-generated tsunami crashed into eleven nations surrounding the Indian Ocean, leaving millions homeless and without safe water, food, or medical care.
If you want to help, here is a list of charities that will be providing immediate aid to the affected people and countries.
Boing Boing is keeping up with news from the region through personal, on-scene blogs.
Update: 12/29/04 estimate is more than 67,000 dead. Bush has finally decided that the calamity is large enough to merit interrupting his Christmas vacation.
Update 2: 12/30/04 morning estimate is 116,000 dead. The Red Cross guesses that the total number of deaths may double because of communicable disease.
Proving once again who really runs things on this planet, in one fell movement Sunday Nature killed upwards of 40,000 people as an earthquake-generated tsunami crashed into eleven nations surrounding the Indian Ocean, leaving millions homeless and without safe water, food, or medical care.
If you want to help, here is a list of charities that will be providing immediate aid to the affected people and countries.
Boing Boing is keeping up with news from the region through personal, on-scene blogs.
Update: 12/29/04 estimate is more than 67,000 dead. Bush has finally decided that the calamity is large enough to merit interrupting his Christmas vacation.
Update 2: 12/30/04 morning estimate is 116,000 dead. The Red Cross guesses that the total number of deaths may double because of communicable disease.
Related issue: US is the world's ScroogeWe give 0.1% of GNP as foreign aid. Canada gives 0.26%, Germany 0.28%, the United Kingdom 0.34%, and France 0.42%.
Powell now says US will provide at least $35 million in aid for tsunami and earthquake recovery. That's about 11 cents per person in the US. For comparison, Bush's inaugural ceremonies will cost about $40 million (paid by corporate and private donors) plus security costs (paid by taxes).
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