Friday, June 17, 2022

It's not easy living in the Philippines

 

The Philippines do not have it easy.  They regularly get hit by massive typhoons, they have a host of dangerously explosive volcanoes, they have a large coastal population that is being affected by sea level rise, the whole place is overpopulated and is Third World poor (sorry, but true);  they don't have a great deal of natural resources, and they have environmental and pollution problems.

I hadn't heard about this until recently, but Typhoon Megi (also called Odette) caused flooding and deadly landslides in April.

Philippines reels from tropical storm Megi as landslide death toll nears 70 with dozens still missing

This was a major landslide caused by Megi.



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