THE world, we know, is growing more dangerous. The number and severity of natural disasters has increased since the 1960s. Population growth and poverty force more and more people to live in inadequate shelters in disaster-prone areas which makes hurricanes, floods and wildfires ever more deadly. This week, we have been watching relief efforts to help people left homeless and bereaved by an earthquake in Pakistan and a hurricane in Central America. Is this really the best we can do?
Stan was a category 1 hurricane, the least powerful, yet it may well have killed more people than hurricane Katrina,…
