Natural disasters: From centrism to realism

While the death toll of Hurricane Harvey is around 70, in Africa intense rains killed at least 1,240 people in August and more than 1,200 in Asia already.

But is then a number of, say, 3,000 casualties dramatically worse than over the last twenty years. My, no!

Come for a shift of focus from sensational media to realistic figures and from centric thinking to looking at other places and times as well.

Natural disasters have taken 30,000 lives each year over the last two decades. That is ten times 30 more than the 3,000 in 2017 sofar.

Or have a look at the period of 1920-1939 when natural disasters killed half a million people yearly.

http://time.com/4124755/natural-disasters-death-united-nations/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/world/asia/floods-south-asia-india-bangladesh-nepal-houston.html?mcubz=0

https://qz.com/1068790/floods-in-africa-in-august-killed-25-times-more-people-than-hurricane-harvey-did/

http://time.com/4930098/texas-hurricane-harvey-death-toll-70/

https://ourworldindata.org/natural-catastrophes/