We’ve all learned to distrust inflated media disaster figures (10,000 died from Katrina?), but even multiplied by ten the latest reports out of Pakistan (2.5 million homeless) are horrifying. Where will all these people end up? (London?) It’s also sobering to recall that a country in so much chaos is a nuclear power. The Pakistani quake is another reminder of what a strange crossroads we are at in history.
MEANWHILE, on the home front, tracking Katrina money is proving difficult.
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I remarked the other day to a friend that it’s interesting that in the Third World, death tolls from disasters tend to rise from the initial reports (tsunami, earthquakes in Iran and Pakistan), while in the developed world they tend to fall (9/11, Katrina). Not sure what to make of it.