• Disasters around the world are more closely linked

    From Unum@21:1/5 to Byker on Fri Sep 10 19:14:56 2021
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    On 9/10/2021 6:35 PM, Byker wrote:
    Unum wrote:

    A cold snap in Texas.

    A locust swarm in East Africa.

    How closely linked are THESE disasters?

    "affecting individual species or entire ecosystems and communities"

    So your attempted diversions are nothing like what we are experiencing today.


    https://www.dw.com/en/multiple-disasters-together-climate-covid/a-59092327

    A cold snap in Texas. A locust swarm in East Africa. A fish in China that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs but succumbed irreversibly to humans last year.

    Though separated by borders and oceans, and affecting individual species or entire ecosystems and communities, disasters like these have more in common than people realize or plan for. This is a key finding of a report published Wednesday by the United Nations University (UNU). The scientists found some
    of the worst disasters over the past two years overlapped to make each other worse. In many cases, they were fueled by the same human actions.

    "When people see disasters in the news, they often seem far away," said Zita Sebesvari, a senior scientist at UNU and a lead author of the report. "But
    even disasters that occur thousands of kilometers apart are often related to one another."

    Three root causes affected most of the events in the UNU analysis: burning fossil fuels, poor management of risk and placing too little value on the environment in decision-making.

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  • From Byker@21:1/5 to Unum on Fri Sep 10 18:35:47 2021
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    Unum wrote:

    A cold snap in Texas.

    A locust swarm in East Africa.

    How closely linked are THESE disasters?

    Steamship burns in mid-Atlantic, 135 die https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Volturno_(1906)

    6 dead, 57 injured in Manchester express train wreck https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5806615

    439 dead in Welsh coal mine explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senghenydd_colliery_disaster

    Zeppelin goes down in flames 24 years before the Hindenburg https://tinyurl.com/krdhaf3v https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannisthal_air_disaster

    What do these disasters all have in common? They all happened in the same
    week in October, 1913. These would be considered uber-calamitous nowadays,
    but back then, once the newspapers had had their fill, these events would be shrugged off by the general public as "the price of progress." At the time
    of the train wreck mentioned above, about 1,000 Brits were killed annually
    in rail accidents...

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