Sheril on Sidr, Bangladesh, and You
For more on Cyclone Sidr, I’ll point you directly to Sheril Kirshenbaum’s short video, which gets straight to the point:
Also from Chris Mooney’s post, some links:
The death toll from Sidr is up to 600 and, unfortunately, still seems to be rising. And of course that doesn’t include injured, missing, displaced, newly homeless…Jeff Masters has more on the unfolding news of the disaster–including an amazing graphic depicting the population densities of the areas along the storm’s path–and so does Greg Laden.
(I read that it’s been confirmed as over 1000 now, it being some hours after Chris’ post.)
Interestingly Greg Laden points out that he does not yet think it is time to donate, as […] Click to continue reading this post