Approximately 59,000 people were killed in such natural disasters last year, according to the latest World Disasters Report published by the Red Cross and Crescent International.
In "Tsunami," a woman reflects on the way violent world disasters seem to echo the violent losses in her personal life.
Case against: Do we really really want to live in a world where God, or the Gods, actually intervene in sporting events but don't prevent deadly world disasters?
An estimated 150 million people have died from those three diseases alone since 1945 compared with 23 million in wars during the same period, according to the federation's "World Disasters Report".
In the song's chorus, she sounds utterly casual, like an American teen-ager calling her mom after getting out of a movie at the multiplex: "Hello, this is M.I.A. / could you please come get me?" In the world, disasters can be everyday events.
CATASTROPHES The 1997 World Disasters Report of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies defines a "disaster" as an event, other than war, which causes the death of more than ten people, affects more than 100 people, or leads to an official appeal for assistance.
