The price of indifference!

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The displacement of a large piece of ice in the Arctic Ocean, the floods in Pakistan, and the heat wave in Russia, are tragedies previously announced it would draw worldwide attention to a bleak future that is approaching.

What is the price of a large block of ice that broke free, and will further increase the level of the oceans? What is the financial cost of rising sea level?

How much longer remain indifferent?

What will it cost, financially, our indifference?

Speaking in loss of life does not work, because the human species is only uncomfortable when he has to take money out of pocket.

While speaking into epidemics, deaths, landslides and slopes, environmental disasters, climate, nobody pays attention, but when economies are ruined, will watch, but it is too late.

The catastrophic floods in Pakistan has a high price in human lives.

In the wake of the floods in Pakistan we have epidemics, famine, social disruption, with a high price to be paid by other nations, institutions, agencies, international humanitarian aid.

Flooding in China will cause an impact on the economy of that country, which reflect the world because China is one of the engines of world economy.

The heat wave in Russia is another event with global consequences, and probably repeated in other regions of the Earth.

The price we are paying for our indifference is too high, but it seems that governments are not giving due attention to such events.

Although the bill was not paid oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and today's headlines have announced a new oil spill in India.

The account of the financial cost of the earthquake of Haiti has not yet been paid.

The epecial climatology are advertising extensively in the dangers and consequences of climate change on a global scale, but the feeling we have is that there is an indifference in the face of these global warnings.

Planet Earth is in serious danger of disasters in the series, in various regions of the world, with unpredictable consequences, since many tragedies large simultaneously cause total chaos in all major infrastructure capable of emergency care.

There is still a wire, is only one wire, but there are still hopes for a global awareness of the need for emergency plans and prevention organizations, in order to reduce the financial impact, and that will cause a financial chaos to all nations.

There is an urgent global awareness of the hazards that approach, for short, while there is still time, then it will be too late ...

RUI SANTOS DE SOUZA
Brazil Curitiba, August 9, 2010 - 09h: 47