Relief Is Not Enough.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 292, Nº. 3, 2005, págs. 8-8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article comments on the need for consistent humanitarian aid to countries in the area affected by the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In these first weeks after the tsunami good news has been redefined as the absence of bad. The real humanitarian fiasco is not the inadequate preparation of these nations, and many others, for freakish catastrophes. It is their inadequate preparation for the day-to-day horrors that routinely slaughter their populations. Millions of people die annually from malaria and AIDS--more than the equivalent of a tsunami a month. Lack of clean water in parts of Africa promotes disease and fuels civil conflicts. Poor countries face chronic crises so dire that the world's sensibilities have been numbed to them. The U.S. and other industrial nations need to be more forthcoming with aid outside of calamitous times.