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Around 200,000 people have died in an earthquake in Haiti.

An international effort is underway to ‘rebuild’ Haiti.

Why?

Haiti was in a mess economically and socially, a mess directly created by colonial powers. But the consensus then was that Haiti didn’t need help because there was no pressing need for it.

To what level will the international effort rebuilt Haiti to? The pathetic state it was in, pre-earthquake? Or to a more humane level?

What’s with earthquakes, tsunamis and floods that are so needy for international aid?

As of now, 3 million people have died in the hellhole that is the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a never-ending conflict with horrific violence and atrocities. The Wikipedia says that

“In 2009 people in the Congo are still dying at a rate of an estimated 45,000 per month, and 2,700,000 people have died since 2004. This death toll is due to widespread disease and famine; reports indicate that almost half of the individuals killed are children under the age of 5. The aftermath of the war has gutted the country. This death rate has prevailed since efforts at rebuilding the nation began in 2004.^[18]

The long and brutal conflict in the DRC has caused massive suffering for civilians, with estimates of millions dead either directly or indirectly as a result of the fighting. There have been frequent reports of weapon bearers killing civilians, destroying property, committing widespread sexual violence^[19], causing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes or otherwise breaching humanitarian and human rights law. An estimated 200,000 women have been raped.^[20]”

It’s politically unsustainable to address real and chronic problems in the world : it’s too difficult, it’s too much work, and not enough press can be generated for the effort put in. Most importantly, we don’t want to address these problems because much of our material wealth depends on the perpetuation of this carnage and system of exploitation.

[This is a disaster in Congo, not Haiti. This is a disaster caused by humans, not earthquakes]

Because of the way we humans respond to unlikely events (irrationally and emotionally), governments everywhere respond transiently and feebly to press-worthy events, like earthquakes and other natural disasters.

This is what we’re up to now : cleaning up the mess only after little accidents, and flaking on the disasters we make ourselves, and pretending we didn’t do it, while hells are made on earth.