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January 6, 2005
A "lived experience account" of the tsunami from a Thai tourist spot called Ao Nang, a small tourist resort town in Krabi province just east of the island of Phuket.
Called, 'Of heroism and cliches' it is by David Simmons, has a photo essay by Martin Young and is published in Asia Times. Simmons and Young work for Asia Times.
Do the images from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India and Thailand serve as a wake-up call about how vulnerable we are to the forces of wind, rain and sea? Do we realize that some people permanently face the fate temporarily doled out by nature to the Maldives: being flooded by the sea?
Dhivehi Observer
Do we realize that the emission of greenhouse gases associated with industrialization and strong economic growth is causing global warming at a rate that began as significant, became alarming and is now unsustainable in the long term?
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