A world divided by ethnic and religious disputes suddenly faced its common humanity- and common morality- in a disaster of shocking geographic reach.

What the rich world suffers as hardships the poor world often suffers as mass death. The rich, unlike the poor, can afford to live in fortified structures away from floodplains, riverbanks and hillsides. The rich, unlike the poor, have early-warning systems-seismic monitors, weather forecasts and disease- surveillance systems. The rich, unlike the poor, have cars and trucks that enable them to leave on short notice when a physical disaster threatens. And the rich countries, unlike the poor ones, can quickly mobilize food, drinking water, backup power generators, doctors and emergency medical supplies in the aftermath of disaster.

One test of whether humanity acts differently in the next millennium is this: Can we marshal the visionary persistence needed to take charge of our future? Or will we carry on as we did throughout most of the past- simply reacting to tragedies as they happen? If the answer is the second, then there will continue to be more tragedies like that of last Sunday.

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.

Salaam

First of all, whom was that for?

Now here goes the crap...
I agree with the assertions of Mr. Pyromaniac that nature does not create an apartheid at all. It dooms all and sundry within just a blink of an eye.

Earthquakes aren't predictable yet. So be it rich.. or the poor, nobody knows that their death is on its way. (I also heard somewhere that the Earthquake hardly took 5 seconds to make people dance, is that right?)

(Your opinion also doesn't qualify in the rescue-operation phase. They could not rescue the people under the debris in Margalla.

If niggers die in New Orleans rich also die in Margalla.)

PS: If I am erring, I can be intercepted and preached. I will be waiting!

Regards,
Adil Memon

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Adil Memon
Police Service of Pakistan (P.S.P)
37th Common Training Program