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Haiti Seeks Aid in Catastrophic Floods

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Posted on Sep 5, 2008

With the mainstream news largely riveted on the U.S. election campaign and convention mania, little attention has been paid to the aftermath of the series of storms that rocked the Caribbean this past month. Flooding in Haiti has put 600,000 people at serious risk as hunger and disease rise in what Haitian President Rene Preval calls a “catastrophe.”


The BBC:

Several hundred thousand people need help in Haiti, which is suffering severe flooding after being hit by a series of tropical storms, the UN says.

UN official Joel Boutroue told the BBC that the situation was likely to worsen in the coming days as another strong hurricane, Ike, approaches the region.

Three storms in less than 21 days have killed more than 200 people, Haitian officials say.

Haitian President Rene Preval has said his country faces a “catastrophe”.

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By KDelphi, September 5, 2008 at 4:17 pm #

Diamond, are you sure that that is true—I mean , that China is “doing the most to combat climate change”?? I’m pretty sure that’s not true, but I dont have thes stats to back it up.

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By diamond, September 5, 2008 at 4:09 pm #

Until world governments take climate change seriously and act NOW to do something about it this chaos will only get worse. At the moment China is doing the most to combat climate change because with their command economy they can simply mandate change.
Anyone who saw ‘The Day after Tomorrow’ a movie that was mocked when it was released, knows what we face. There will soon be bigger floods and also floods of refugees from all over the world and increasingly there will be nowhere for them to go. This is yet another urgent reason why John McCain simply must not be elected. As that young man told the American delegation in Bali at the climate change conference:
‘If for some reason you don’t want to lead get out of the way and let us do it’ but the reality is that unless America gets on board the climate will continue to deteriorate. McCain is much more interested in bombing Iran and starting a war with Russia than he is in fighting climate change or world poverty. It’s a choice of apocalypses but the climate change scenario can be controlled and reversed -John McCain’s plans can’t be.

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By KDelphi, September 5, 2008 at 3:15 pm #

People dont even seem to care about New Orleans, much less Haiti or Cuba. If Americans could be a little less obsessed with “self” and their money-rolled, tweedledumb and tweedle-dumbass election, we might be able to actually do some good in teh world. First, we have to get a govt that “cares”. But we ALSO need a govt that is ready to STOP the Cuban embargo; and stop replacing every elected leader of Hatiti (whether the big corp like them or not!)with a more “capitalist” one.

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