Skeptic Skeptic - to go over the ground again, our arguement with Suzanne is two fold. First she drags in climate change and insists that there is a link between disasters and climate change, which is hard considering that the main disaster she cites in an earthquake and tsunami. That's a stretch even for CSIRO-activists and, to judge from some of the reports I've seen, certain sections of the organisation are activist.

The second is she says nothing about what should be done. We should be doing something but what? Where? As another poster has pointed out, if a child knew what to do in an earthquake why didn't the adults involved in her little parable know. Why should we educate the child over the adult? Or is the object to feel good rather than save lives?

We are not the ones with our heads in the sand.

Bugsy - forgot to say before good to hear from you. Keep it up, you might land a punch yet.

Yeah, Pericles pretty much has the right of it, I think the article is pap as well, but not because of the climate change references. But the indignant reactionism of the 'sceptics' is so on show today.

Oh and Mark, I can tell when I land punches.

The government’s climate change salesman Tim Flannery has admitted: if all world carbon emissions ceased today, we would see no change in the temperature of the atmosphere for 1000 years! That's amazing when the same person tries to sell us the idea it only took 70 years to increase the temperature and he wants us to support a carbon tax to fight the climate change.

Let's get real - taxing us will not lower global temperatures, or greenhouse gases and it won't reduce the number of hurricanes, droughts, or snowstorms. Those who believe we should be doing something are kidding themselves if they think humans can influence global weather patterns and those that support Julia's carbon tax are simply in Lala-Land.

When six-year old Suzunosukefelt the earthquake he remembered from lessons at school that there were was a risk that a tsunami would follow. He immediately alerted his father to that risk and, heeding the warning, his father gathered up the family and ran up the hill to safety. Hundreds died in Onagawa, but Suzunosuke's family survived because he knew the dangers and what action to take.

Excellent article Suzanne - the paramount issue being safety of children in disasters - Disaster awareness and management for children - things I have always worked through with my children over past years, regarding all types of disasters and situations, some of which, my children already experienced prior to 2010 and 2011.

Sound strategies put into action during disasters without panic save childrens lives.

Well of course they do, weareunique.

>>Sound strategies put into action during disasters without panic save childrens lives.<<

You can prove this statement quite easily.

- unsound strategies are unlikely to be effective.

- sound strategies that are not put into action during disasters are unlikely to save lives.

- sound strategies put into action in the absence of a disaster would be a waste of time.

- sound strategies put into action during disasters in a state of panic would be counterproductive.

So you are absolutely, completely and irrefutably correct in your assertion.

Unfortunately, like the author, you provide no guidance as to what these magical strategies might be, or how their "soundness" can be measured. Or even why they apply to children, and not adults.

Or indeed why we should continue to subsidise such vapid meanderings put forward - extremely expensively - in the name of charity.

Or even why they apply to children, and not adults.

Or indeed why we should continue to subsidise such vapid meanderings put forward - extremely expensively - in the name of charity.
Posted by Pericles, Sunday, 15 May 2011 5:04:05 PM

Pericles - have you not raised children or taught kids safety measures - our future generation who become adults in the blink of an eye?