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“No country can fully insulate itself from disaster risk,
but every country can reduce its vulnerability. Better planning can help reduce
damage and loss of life from disasters…” Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group
President.
In
Japan, 2011, there was a tsunami that cost the entire world over 3.5 trillion
dollars that will be carried behind us for the next 30 years. Situations like
these catastrophes caused the World Bank to raise and demand solutions for
these national disasters as well as better disaster planning. This brought
about a Policymakers meeting in Sendai, one of Japan’s majorly damaged cities
in the northeast, made a point that infrastructure in economies should be
designed to minimize the cost of natural disasters. That way we wouldn’t have
to face 3.5 trillion dollars of debt between all nations.
So, the
World Bank started doing experiments, going to different places, trying to get
a hold of what they could fix and how. They visited an elementary school, where
320 people took shelter on the roof from the waves that had previously struck
in the tsunami disaster. This same school had even served as an emergency
evacuation centre when the waters had receded. The school had many different
items that made them well prepared and well equipped to be an emergency
evacuation station. Items such as blankets and food. “
They
then went to another part in Japan’s northeast region, where huge waves swept
over and killed nearly 19,000 people. This opened the World Bank’s eyes, making
them want to learn from Japan because of their nicely developed disaster
management plans. The “resilience of the Japanese people in their
reconstruction efforts, and their generosity in sharing that experience with us”
is truly amazing, said Kristalina Georgieva, European Union Commissioner. These
studies and hopes brought about plans for disaster planning on a part of a lot
of emerging economies.
Though
the decision isn’t quite made up yet, it is still a large possibility that will
help as a general whole. If we together as a nation can bring about disaster
relief in a better way, the entire economy of the world will not be faltering
as much anymore. Natural and Catastrophic disasters are a part of our world,
and they have been for a very long time, that’s not going to change. The only
thing that will change is our action, and our voice. What will we do about
these disasters to better our world as a whole? I think both the World Bank and
Japan have a pretty fantastic head start. If we can put those decisions into
action, our entire world won’t be in such bad turmoil anymore, but we’ll be
able to fight through it together, leaning on each other. We all experience a
lot of the same natural disasters within each country. If we can give aid to
other countries, and get their aid in return, as well as their ideas, there
will be change in the economy and in our World.
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