The residents of Margalls towers were not poor people by any definition. They cannot be recorded as relatively poor even if compared to Bill Gates. ( I am not exaggerating).
More over natural calamities when hit Japan or Pakistan do not follow the GDP scales or indexes.A natural calamity is equally fatal for all HUMANS and for the entire ecosystem.
What is required of us is to devise a plan to make this world an ecological safe place to live. Deforestation has to be stopped, OZONE protection should be enhanced, the global warming issue has to be met seriously. This is a call for all EARTHNERS, for all of us homo sapiens. NO DISTINCTION
Otherwise the repurcussions would not discriminate between the rich and the poor, between the readers and the writer of this posting and between the victim and the rescuer.

regards.