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Pakistan Earthquake Deaths Estimated at 30,000+

Posted By: 'Okie' | 11:51 am — 10/9/2005 | Comments Off See comments below:

In his post on reasons for such a high death-toll in the 7.6 Pakistan earthquake of yesterday, fellow SCBA blogger Laer Pierce at Cheat Seeking Missiles makes the following observations:

You can be poor and happy, but not if you’re a nation. High standards of construction — not to mention education or medicine — require money.
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Politics has consequences, sometimes life and death consequences. Hard environmentalists and anti-globalists want people in poor countries to stay poor, just like they want people in rich countries to become poorer. But they hatch these schemes in their well-engineered, reinforced, heated and cooled homes.

Let them try to stick to their beliefs in the village of Garhi Habibullah, where 300 bodies have been recovered from the ruins of a girls school.

Laer has a good bit of wisdom in the the rest of his post, and I highly recommend that you go there and check it out. The death toll was being estimated at over 30,000 this AM on FoxNews, which seems like a staggering amount for a 7.6 magnitude quake. Laer explains a lot of the reason for this, and perhaps, assigns some blame.

And truth be told — I, just like Laer, continue to procrastinate in being prepared for LA’s inevitable Big One! (db)

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