Why are some lessons so hard to learn?
In September of last year I wrote this.
Severe events in poor countries kill thousands and take decades to recover from. These same severe events in wealthy countries kill dozens and take weeks to recover from. Wealth is the key so we should never do anything that destroys wealth. Climate change policies destroy wealth. They are the exact wrong thing to do if you want to save human life.
Contrary to what climate alarmists tell you more people are not dying from climate disasters. The overall trend is down. Fewer and fewer people are killed by disasters of any type each year. We still have disasters they just don’t kill as many people because we are better prepared. The key to preparation is wealth. When you have money you can afford top notch emergency response teams and equipment.
I don’t know why this is such a difficult lesson to learn. There are dozens of examples that shows with any incident the number of bodies is directly proportional to the level of poverty. More poverty equals more deaths. The Earthquake that hit Fukushima Japan was more than 10 times stronger than the 2010 Haiti earthquake yet more than 10 times as many Haitians died as Japanese. Japan is rich and Haiti is poor. It was the poverty that did most of the killing.
This week we saw another example of how vulnerable people in poor countries can be. Thousands of Turks died because they could not afford sturdy houses.
It is underdevelopment that turns natural disasters into humanitarian catastrophes.
This is precisely why it is a bad idea to destroy wealth with government policies. It is poverty that kills.
The overriding lesson from this unfolding catastrophe is that the world needs development, and a hell of a lot more of it. A wealthier world would not have to put up with such a high human cost. We do not need to accept our fate in the face of ‘natural’ disasters.
The best way to prevent deaths due to natural disasters is not to try and prevent the natural disasters. That is pure folly. Mother Nature will do what she wants to do. She always has, she always will, we cannot stop any of it. All we can do is be prepared and that requires wealth; wealth that western politicians seem hell bent on destroying.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is reducing the living standards of Canadians while at the same time attacking the country’s economic base and resource industries.
Liberal policy is grievously wounding our country. The legacy that will be left by Trudeau’s amateur cabinet of environmentalists, socialists and political organizers will be higher taxes, unaffordable housing, a debilitated health-care system, higher government debt and a lower standard of living for future generations.
Actions speak louder than words. Through his actions Justin Trudeau loudly declares that he hates us. He would really rather that we all die. That is why he wants to make us poor. In a country like Canada he does not even need to wait for an earthquake to kill all his newly minted poor. He only has to wait for a winter storm.
No politician that destroys wealth is helping anyone. Stop listening to what they say and pay more attention to what they do. People like Justin Trudeau are far more dangerous than you realize.
