WPR's The New Rules: Keeping Disasters in Perspective

Between Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano and the oil slick in the Gulf, everybody seems to have disasters on the brain lately. Some of it stems from the nonstop global media coverage, while a good portion relates to our growing awareness of climate change. But a lot of this heightened anxiety is simply misplaced. We don’t live in an increasingly dangerous world, whether you’re talking wars, terrorism, disasters -- or just the weather.  In fact, we live in the safest times yet known to humanity. We just choose not to see it that way for a variety of reasons.

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