He did admit that there will be "some dislocation" as dirty energy jobs are destroyed and clean energy jobs are created.
If your house has been damaged rather than destroyed, interior clean up will be required.
Standing water can cause the spread of disease, and transportation or communications infrastructure may have been destroyed, hampering clean-up and rescue efforts.
But, with oil companies reaping record profits, it seems to many of us that the Exxons and BPs of the world have some responsibility to act in a way that doesn't kill us off in the process, or irreversibly destroy the clean waters we need to in order to swim, drink, and fish.
Basic services that were reestablished over the past year have been destroyed, including hospitals, clean water, nutrition treatment sites –both out-patient and in-patient facilities.
The buildings that weren't destroyed have been cleaned out and are being used, in part.
The group then defaced Stratfor's Web site, wiped its client database clean, and destroyed its e-mail server.
Given that the average life span of a dollar bill is only five years, billions of dollars' worth of currency are destroyed annually, replaced with clean, crisp notes.
They wiped their hands in the dust of the destroyed paving stones, to clean them, because the Koran says that if there is no water and you are in the desert you can use sand to clean your hands before you pray.
"So if you buy a vehicle that's a couple of years old and import it into some of the African countries, the technology in there – sensors and filters – all gets spoilt, and these cars, which are potentially very clean, are destroyed in a couple of tanks, and for the next 20 years will be belching smoke," he said.
