[lbo-talk] 8.8 EQ in Chile

[Somebody Somebody]

The low casualty count is further evidence, if it was needed, that the primary factor in natural disasters is the level of development and infrastructure in a particular society. Although Lomborg is demonized on the left, this is his essential point - that global warming, bad as it is, can be handled much more easily by affluent societies. The main issue then, is poverty, as it always was.