Some Numbers to Scare the Shit Out of You With...
First of all, look at this chart:
Ok, now that you've seen it, really read and pay attention to the information it presents. How fucking terrifying is that? Ok, now let me fess up with you... it isn't ALL that horrible.... right?
Yeah, actually that is REPORTED natural disasters, as in some things just fell through the cracks... probably of the Earth, as it was breaking up during an earthquake. Anyhow, now there are more and more ways to record, report, and inform, so that number is only to be bigger and bigger as media and multimedia capabilities strengthen and reporting agencies pop up into existence. Beyond that, really, yes, natural disasters to seem to be growing in occurance.
Why? Who the fuck knows. Do we know that natural disasters weren't this frequent millions of years ago? We don't really have any conclusive evidence that proves or disproves it, and besides, no one was alive yet. Can't rightly ask a fucking t-rex what happened, so there we go. I will say that in HUMAN records and memory, though calamities of greater magnitude have happened I don't think the frequency of such has ever been as high as it has in the last few decades, and this decade has definitely been pretty crazy.
Now, I would also like to see natural and man-made disasters on a chart like this, basically measuring the loss of human life thanks to natural means and man-made death fests such as wars, terrorist attacks, murders, traffic accidents, and such.
Could be an interesting set of numbers, eh?
Anyhow, where am I going with all of this? You'll see soon enough. One of my damn theories, which I was turning into a book, is slowly looking more and more like reality. I'll explain more at a later date. Until then you can read the full report that I pulled this graph out of right here.
Ok, now that you've seen it, really read and pay attention to the information it presents. How fucking terrifying is that? Ok, now let me fess up with you... it isn't ALL that horrible.... right?
Yeah, actually that is REPORTED natural disasters, as in some things just fell through the cracks... probably of the Earth, as it was breaking up during an earthquake. Anyhow, now there are more and more ways to record, report, and inform, so that number is only to be bigger and bigger as media and multimedia capabilities strengthen and reporting agencies pop up into existence. Beyond that, really, yes, natural disasters to seem to be growing in occurance.
Why? Who the fuck knows. Do we know that natural disasters weren't this frequent millions of years ago? We don't really have any conclusive evidence that proves or disproves it, and besides, no one was alive yet. Can't rightly ask a fucking t-rex what happened, so there we go. I will say that in HUMAN records and memory, though calamities of greater magnitude have happened I don't think the frequency of such has ever been as high as it has in the last few decades, and this decade has definitely been pretty crazy.
Now, I would also like to see natural and man-made disasters on a chart like this, basically measuring the loss of human life thanks to natural means and man-made death fests such as wars, terrorist attacks, murders, traffic accidents, and such.
Could be an interesting set of numbers, eh?
Anyhow, where am I going with all of this? You'll see soon enough. One of my damn theories, which I was turning into a book, is slowly looking more and more like reality. I'll explain more at a later date. Until then you can read the full report that I pulled this graph out of right here.
Labels: death, global warming, murder, natural disasters
posted by Evil Adam at
5:58 PM
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