Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence.
To say Donald Trump would be a disaster for our country, our democracy, and our future would be doing a grave disservice to the word 'disaster.'
People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.
There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.
What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.
We've had a history of hurricanes, but none of them of the magnitude that we're seeing Irma turn out to be.
The Porter Ranch situation is the BP oil spill on land.
What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.
You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.
