Posted on 01/01/2024 7:02:52 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
There is no such thing as a natural disaster only the failure of humans to prepare for events beyond their control, a United Nations office warns.
In a display of almost Orwellian doublespeak, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) further cautions “a hazard can only become a disaster once it impacts on society or community. A hazard is natural, disasters are not.”
The words of warning are contained in an online assessment published by the organization, stating at the outset “We often hear about ‘natural disasters’ in the news or from NGOs and international organisations (even some less-well informed UN agencies!). The truth is, there is no such thing as a natural disaster.”
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Socialism & Communism are the hazards we should all be preparing for.
I worked for a nuclear power plant from construction until my retirement 38 years later. This was the philosophy required by the NRC.
It made sense at the time because the regulatory environment in the beginning guaranteed the utilities a profit.
Later after the ‘Deregulation’ of utilities did away with that philosophy of guaranteed profits the NRC philosophy did not change and the NRC kept requiring new guards against natural disasters that had no chance of happening at our plant.
Our plant sits on the shores of Lake Erie at the top of a 60 foot cliff. After the Fukushima power plants were taken out by a tidal wave our plant had to spend many millions of dollars to do a study of the plans terrain and install flood protections against a tidal wave on Lake Erie.
The fact that Lake Erie has never had wave recorded over 25 foot. That leaves the plant with a 35 foot safety margins.
The economics are not justified to ensure against non-extant threats.
Shall we pay technocrats to dream of unrealistic terrors that we need to prepare to defeat?
That way is madness and universal poverty.
I don’t usually agree with the UN, but I see nothing objectionable in this.
If a massive storm hits the coast, and no one suffers injury, is it a disaster?
Storms happen, earthquakes happen, floods happen. But they only become disasters when people insist on living where they happen without taking proper precautions.
Keep in mind it’s the United Nations of Islam. OIC is the largest voting block.
Volcanoes are man made events?
Earthquake!!!
Move the UN out of the US.
The point of this is that it’s all our fault. It’s always our fault,
It would seem that someone doesn’t comprehend “events beyond their control”.
My son-in-law has a saying (former Airborne & Ranger)...”There’s no such thing as bad weather...just bad clothing choices”.
I’ve taken that to heart.
Dear UN:
Get bent.
This crap sounds like a bunch of college-age stoners sitting around the bong bloviating.
The UN also says that there’s no such thing as borders...terrorism...
Boy, is she ever full of crap
No. The empty UN structure needs to be torn down as the atrocity that it is.
The *homeless* need to either be in reopened mental institutions, jail, or getting off their butts and working for a living.
By her facial features and her name my guess is that she’s Japanese. I wonder if she considers what Japan has just experienced in the last few hours is a “natural disaster”.
Rockefeller did us no favor.
Too true. Too many people depend on the government to bail them out. Entitlement mentality is destroying this country.
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