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POLL: Add a Natural Disasters Board?


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dejvid writes:

Frederick- "Well said – wars are produced by direct human intervention – natural disasters, while they can occur indirectly by human action, are – well – natural"

Forest Fires are often far from natural but that's not really the point.

Take a volcano which really is outside any human influence:

It happens – nothing one can do about it bu

*monitoring can give warning
*political authorities can ignore warnings or evacuate
*badly organized evacuations can mean many will die that
need not have

All this is down to human action and where there is
human action there's a game.


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VOTING RESULTS
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yes
11
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no
177
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no opinion
11
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POLL IS CLOSED
POLL DESCRIPTION

Roderick Robertson Supporting Member of TMP proposes adding a Natural Disasters board for the TMP Plus forum:

For discussion of "I'm about to be slammed by a Hurricane" or "we just had an earthquake, but we're okay." We've had two tropical storms/hurricanes in Texas, a fire and an earthquake in California, just in the last couple weeks.