I just saw on youtube a video regarding how money, greed and politicians affect in a bad way the way we live.
Not that i don't know, but how further can this stupid things go? Added to lot of other new bad things that we hear every day.
Helping people to make homes in risky places with a hand from government?
Below is the video which, after i watched made me to make this post.
Searching for details about their examples in the video, made me find so many other bad things ;-(.
There are some quotes and sources with detailed information and also my thoughts with what i found today (it is more than i put here, but the post will not end with all of them).
I really can't believe that this things happens today. And with such an important problem. At the same time, after all we see that happens, i think they (fake politicians and gov's) are able to do even worse unfortunately - see also the recent "war" against crypto world with important people making wrong and misleading accusations to what really happens (one example here: Bitcoin FUD / SLAP / or new BEGINNING - WHAT TO DO in this moments (Jaime Dimon threats, China bans) - september 15, 2017 — Steemit.
VOX Media - source VIDEO:
Treating hurricanes like war zones hurts survivors - YouTube
and the article in VOX website:
Treating natural disasters like war zones hurts survivors - Vox
The main problem that video shows, it is that wrong information in case of natural disasters is used too much and in some cases with bad intention.
About how official institutions, in some areas, helps people to build homes in very risky zone. With state insurance and promise to rebuild it again and again (you will see the quote later).
And how, media using terms like war zones and mother nature, makes politicians less responsible for some true facts (of course, not in all cases).
Nature can't be responsible for our actions and can't be always blamed for our mistakes.
And also there is no war with nature. There are no enemies in this "fight". It is only nature and it's path.
Some examples for bad choices for building:
HOUSTON:
Developers has been allowed to build over the area of natural flood planes, on the past few years. That puts people and property in harm's way and make the way harder for the area to absorb stormwater
TAMPA
Where unrestricted development has put people and property right on the city's vulnerable coastline...
Barrier islands, like Miami Beach which are supposed to shield the mainland from storms are now bustling hotspots increasing the chance that any massive hurricane will cause massive damage
The problem stays in state policy in any country that don't take this kind of things in consideration (even if they knew about that).
The Week:
The perverse incentives of the National Flood Insurance Program
The week article says why some places are populated when they shouldn't be. And also how Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its subsidiary, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) have provided bad information to people to build on a dangerous zone for natural disasters.
They show how NFIP offers flood insurance at low price and make people interested to build in a very risky zone.
Who "pays" for human losses? Of course, nobody. They just took the money and that's it.
As so many times, lot of programs or institutions that are built to help, do more bad things than good ones.
Another example in The Week's article is with journalist John Stossel, who sustain that kind of bad investments. He make all the private insurance being "dumb" because they didn't gived insurance to people:
Since private insurers weren’t dumb enough to sell cheap insurance to people who built on the edges of oceans or rivers, Congress decided the government should step in and do it.
He also said there that:
So if the ocean ate what I built, I could rebuild and rebuild again and again...
see full article here:
Wow, what a good advice. Again, who brings back human loses?
And all of that when the climate change is already happens.
Officials at Flood Control District said:
...the flood control district has no plans to study climate change or its impacts on Harris County, the third-most-populous county in the United States.
source:
Boomtown, Flood Town (Full Text) — ProPublica
Also some officials, unofficialy banned terms like climate change and global warming to not let people be aware? I think we already know and live that.
Here are some articles about that:
- In Florida, officials ban term 'climate change' | Miami Herald
- Gov. Rick Scott’s ban on climate change term extended to other state agencies | Miami Herald
Then, media put in news things like "human versus nature", "war zone" , "mother's nature force" maybe to help politicians to escape from guilt and responsibility making "mother nature" being a big monster against we can do nothing about. Yay. It's true that we can't fight with nature "rage", but we can diminish its effects by knowing how and taking cautious measures.
Last, about the looting.
Often, looting is used to scare people and not leaving homes. Some times, just for making audience, with quick verbal reports (with no real confirmations) and later to be found not to be true. I know it is their job, but how low can you go with that?
Looting. Yes, it happens for sure. Always it will be someone who want to steal.
But there could be just photos with people having bags or other things that belongs to them and they are just running. Why use that for audience?
Some good positive refferences with details regarding this kind of missinformation are:
Katherine Fry
She wrote a book regarding:
Constructing the Heartland uses television news coverage of the 1993 Midwest flood as a case study...
Regarding the looting theme:
Kathleen Tierney
- Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado
Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned & Implications for Crisis Management Kathleen Tierney Professor, Department of Sociology & Institute of Behavioral Science. - Natural Hazards Center || Kathleen Tierney
In the video above are interviews with both of them which i can't find, so i put just some links i find to them. You can see their speakings only in the video above.
Again, i can't believe that could happen when we all see how climate is changing and how our seasons changed with new interactions from nature. We must prepare for new climate and do things accordingly, not selling people land where they could lose everything including their lives.
Yes, i know this information are released from other media source... but is really nothing true? I think all informations here are true with so many examples from true events and there are so much more than we even haven't heard about.
This kind of things along with the power, the money control, just shows us what really happens in this world. The only thing they want is power.
All their greed maked them to move to another level of... whatever they do.
Normally in this moments it should not exist this kind of thinking, even from the worst politicians.
I see also, lot of people and communities helping each other and doing good things for their kinds. This will always give us hope. When we can help somebody or others are there to help us in the worst scenarios.
But we must now the truth about their bad intentions and we always must share what we see and what we find.
Till next time,
Cheers and good steemit time! (if you read it on steemit, if not go check it out)
All product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners
pictures source: Pixabay and related websites quoted above
What do you think about my blog? You can subscribe for new solutions at the problems i found or encounter in my digital journey.
https://freewarestyle.blogspot.com
If you got ideas for a post, a problem you have with software, please leave a comment.
You can also read this article here
MAIN BLOG:
Media News and War zone comparison to Natural Disasters and "Mother Nature" guilt?
social:
twitter: @ilvstranger
steemit.com/@ilvstranger: @ilvstranger