Don't call them 'natural disasters'. Call them what they are : Gaia-directed terror attacks, on humans, by her brutal forces of nature.
We're at war here, people.
Nature wants to kill us for what we've done to this planet. There's no reason to pretend otherwise, anymore. Nature wants to wants to take away our freedoms and air-conditioners, it wants to change our way of life, it wants to change the mass consumerist values that formed and shaped our modern societies.
Nature has had enough of us, that much is now clear, and has decided to fight back against humans. This is why YNR enthusiastically endorses the War On Nature. Nobody's going to tell us what we can and can't cover with concrete.
A few days ago, we looked at how the toll of Nature's War On Us compared to human murder rates, suicide rates and war-related massacres and assorted slaughters.
The conclusion was reached that Nature's War On Humans was failing, as the Human War On Humans had killed many, many tens of millions more in the past four or five decades than Nature has taken out with hurricanes, tsunamis and mantle-cracking earthquakes.
The conclusion was reached that, with less than 3 million fatalities in natural disasters over the past few decades, Nature was clearly losing The War.
But new human fatality figures in The War suggest that Nature might have been staging something of a "surge" in attacks on humanity in 2007 and 2008 :
Diplomacy will not work this time.The figures came from German re-insurance group Munich Re which warned that the pattern this year fitted a trend of worsening weather-driven catastrophes...
Specialists at the German group recorded about 400 natural catastrophes in the first half of 2008, with overall losses so far estimated at $US50 billion ($52.48 billion).
In 2007, a total of 960 disasters caused about $US82 billion in damage, of which $US30 billion was covered by insurance.
The first half of this year has been marked by "a large number of weather-related natural catastrophes'', the statement said.
