Man v. Wild
It seems that nuclear-wasted northern Japan may be in better shape than Cote D’Ivoire.
High levels of violence, political or criminal, are much more destructive than natural disasters. The report found that criminal violence in Guatemala cut economic activity in 2005 by more than twice as much as the damage caused by Hurricane Stan.
“People in fragile and conflict-affected states are more than twice as likely to be undernourished as those in other developing countries, more than three times as likely to be unable to send their children to school, twice as likely to see their children die before age 5, and more than twice as likely to lack clean water,” the report says.
This makes good sense. Nature is fickle and its destruction fundamentally superficial, while human disasters like Laurent Gbagbo tend to leave a mark.
