You are an amazing speaker as you always debunk complicated history and turn them into interesting mini-chapters. Your brief narrative has touched on all the critical circumstances surrounding this poet. Thank you for replenishing my knowledge! ps. Don't forget that it was the sorrow of the Yellow River that brought the building of an astounding civilization 3000 years ago. This is an awaking disaster, a time for evaluation, cooperation, and action plan for the future. Therefore, go, China go!
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Thank you for your support, it is very encouraging
I wish people understand what it means when meteorologists say "once in a hundred years" or "once in a thousand years". This is only about statistical calculation based on past records. It just predicts the likelihood of an event occurring at any time. Therefore, when people said "this is a hundred year storm", it does not mean that a storm of this intensity will only occur once in a hundred years. It just means that the chances of such a storm of such intensity happening in any year is 1%. One in a thousand just means a 0.1%. Buildings, facilities, structures are designed around such calculations. We are now experiencing Climate Change. The floods did not just happen in China but in numerous other countries all in June and July. Even a dry place like Iran had severe floods. Headlines like "never seen anything like this" "worst floods in decades" "never happened before", "worst in history" are common. At the same time, heat waves and wild fires are happening elsewhere. The planet's climate is inextricably interconnected. I think Canada has also measured its highest temperatures ever, at 49.6 °C, resulting in 676 deaths. I agree with you. Do not add to trouble with baseless accusations and emotional outbursts when we do not understand something. Don't 落井下石. For sure, after this, there will be investigations done and improvements needed, whether in infrastructure design, response capability, decision making, forecast data etc. It is always easy to say this or that should be done or not done on hindsight. I am not Chinese. But as I observe all these Climate Change events happening around the world, I can say that China has displayed one of the best and quickest response despite the scale of its floods compared to the other countries. As more and more such events happen, the calculations of what would qualify as "one in a hundred years event" will naturally be revised and updated. And there will be even more such events, even more severe. We only have to look at the past 20 years' trend. We all live on one small planet and if we human beings don't urgently act to change the way we live, I'm afraid it might already be too late. No amount of science or technology or good government can prepare us for the forces of nature. All we can is is to try and minimise the damage.