The EQ is what, a few hours old. I would expect the casualty count to go up though probably not as fast as Haiti.
Advanced societies have plenty of decrepit infrastructure that can also crumble if shaken hard enough at just the right points. SOME advanced societies do different things to plan for emergencies, but there would also be big class divisions....
DC
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Somebody Somebody
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> 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.
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