Thursday, December 30, 2004

The politics of early warnings

No national leader wants to evacuate the entire coast for an indefinite period of time, causing an economic and refugee crisis on the scale of a world war, for what might be a false alarm. But nobody wants to ignore a warning, and perhaps be responsible for tens of millions of deaths. From a political standpoint, it's better not to have the warning at all.

Gwynne Dyer, Journalist
In Unstoppable Gee-Gees

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