But even there, the crisis generated more weariness than anxiety.
What we are dealing with is a global crisis generated by decades of gross mismanagement of water resources.
Yet no humanitarian crisis generates so little attention per million corpses, or such a pathetic international response.
The current manufactured crisis, generated by deliberate government policies, such as funding cuts, is a classic strategy of privatisation.
They say the summer migrant crisis generated widespread media coverage but did not in the end trigger the financial help they hoped for from the government.
Since financial crises are associated with long-run losses in GDP, a reduction in the probability of a crisis generates marginal benefits.
This idea is favoured by radical integrationists, hopeful that the atmosphere of crisis generated by an Irish "no" would allow them to make a much bigger leap forward.
A likely explanation is that the financial crisis generated considerable uncertainty about future income, which in turn led consumers and firms to put off purchases of durable goods.
Only the London media class and the Westminster political elite, both represented here in Bournemouth and in greater concentration at gatherings over the next fortnight, have been transfixed by a global crisis generating overreaction that feeds off itself.
In response to a crisis generated by corporations, facilitated by lobbyists, and lopsidedly affecting white Americans, the Sessions Justice Department reverted back to "New Jack City"-era language about street gangs and the implied threat of black and brown drug dealers.
