Earth Is Cruel

Life isn’t fair. It is often the case in various households across the world throughout history that young children have been told the well-known historic saying, ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Yet, as young adults and adults, we often accept this fact as a way of our own personal lives as compared to others in our community. However, when we do remember this phrase, it is often in a way of self-pity, and very seldom is it used to express sorrow for those around us. One exception to this rule seems to occur directly following natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and fires along with any other type of natural disaster which has affected humankind in some way or another. It is hard to discuss the impacts of natural disasters

According to Pitt’s article, Hurricane Georges claimed approximately 500 lives. This catastrophic event was termed a ‘weakened hurricane’, however, it is clear by the death toll that even a weak hurricane is more than any country would want to deal with. Many people from the states pitied those affected by the hurricane, especially those in coastal regions who could relate to the losses of family members as well as houses. Through the chaos, many reporters interviewed various survivors of the disaster and asked a multitude of questions. However, one question remained unanswered among citizens of Haiti as to the reasoning behind the location of the hurricane - 'Why us? '. Nobody could give the citizens of Haiti a feasible answer as to why they, as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, were the ones who had suffered millions of dollars in damages. The only statement Haitians received that might have been considered a definite answer - 'Life isn 't fair.

This calamity of nature claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. According to an article published by CNN, the estimate of the death toll varies between 220,000 and 316,000 people. This astounding number, alongside the fact that an additional 300,000 people were injured, makes this the deadliest disaster to strike Haiti from 1770 to 2010 according to a Huffington Post timeline. Once again the citizens of Haiti were left without a satisfactory answer as to why they, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and the focal point of more natural disasters than most nations in the world put together, were the victims of yet another natural disaster, especially one of this magnitude. Haitians were once again left with no better answer than, 'Life isn 't fair '. Natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and fires along with any other type of natural disaster which has affected humankind in some way or another may not be a rare occurrence, yet they are still disastrous. It is hard to discuss the impacts of natural disasters without mentioning the numerous catastrophic events which have occurred in the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti. Time and time again the small nation has been the