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To: timm22
"As a percentage, how many of the people living in that same area would have survived had they lived in a hunter-gather society without help from any modern outsiders?"

Percentages? Probably about the same.

77 posted on 06/11/2006 10:55:15 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Percentages? Probably about the same.

Really?

The U.S. Census Bureau claims that as of 1 July 2005, Orleans county had a population of 437,186. According to Wikipedia, 1,836 people died as a result of Katrina.

Counting ONLY Orleans county, that comes to 0.004%. Are you sure a hurricane of Katrina's magnitude would have only killed less than one half of one percent of hunter-gatherers living in the same area, without the benefit of early warning or outside assistance?

83 posted on 06/11/2006 2:58:17 PM PDT by timm22 (Think critically)
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