Yes, a great tragedy. But what people seem constantly to ignore is that the catastrophe itself began much earlier than the earth quake. Decades of socialism and corruption lead to poverty, bad housing and bad infrastructure. Each single immoral action of the people involved in the last decades caused this disaster to become even worse.

So, when we have discovered that it wasn’t just a natural disaster, what do we do? Continuous disaster-management around the world cannot be the answer. Instead, this leads to people relying on help instead of facing the dangers that may come in the future. The least thing is to speak up, to blame the real causes for this disaster, to educate people about them and to lead by example. In a way, we are responsible for those deaths as well. Lacking a capitalistic form of government we did not allow everyone to enter our countries that wanted to immigrate.

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