Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Cold weather kills another 37 people in Afghanistan

Here.

Excerpts:
Bitter cold weather and heavy snow left 37 people dead in central Afghanistan, a provincial governor said Tuesday.
The victims, including 20 children, died in remote areas of Ghazni province in the last 24 hours, said Gov. Faizullah Faizan.
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Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world. Afghans in remote villages are typically able to heat their mud-brick homes only by burning animal dung or wood, if the family can afford it.
Let's say that someone found 37 dead polar bears that allegedly died because of global warming. Wouldn't such an incident receive several orders of magnitude more publicity than the death of these 37 human beings?

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