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Posted on 12/30/2004 10:29:22 AM PST by kerouacbal
I understand your point exactly, but I cannot condone it.
If this is true: it means 1/100 of 1 percent of humanity wiped out by a natural even in 1 to 2 hours time span. Unbelievable.
Drudge has been pretty accurate on his reporting of the numbers so far. He has been putting up some excellent reports, links and pictures. In fact, he was practically the only one covering the story when it first broke. None of the big name news people thought that one of the most significant stories of the century was important enough for them to break from their holiday vacations.
No more than the millions that died because of Pol Pot.
Wow, that is bad.
How do they bury all those people and avoid disease after that?
There has been destruction of this scale many times in history. This is just the first time the technology has existed to show the pictures of what this level of destruction is really like.
Which would make their annual population growth something like 4-5 million per year. Sounds like a realistic number -- which is itself an extremely sobering statistic.
The dead have nothing to do with it. The infrastructure losses are the problem.
Even if 1 survived, it's better than none.
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