africa in crisis

In Africa, they have many probalems of natural. Droughts, famines, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes... six times more poeple died from natural disasters each year in the 1970s then in the 1960s. This book shows how poeple are changing their environment to make it more prone to disasters, and to make themselves more vulnerable. It shows that disasters mainly hit poor poeple in poor countries. The average Japanese disaster kills 63 poele. In Peru, the average death toll is 2,900. In 1974, a hurricane killed over 4,000 poeple in Honduras.  A similar hurricane in Darwin, Australia, killed only 49 poeple.