I'm torn between suggesting you finding it amusing seeing people struggling to survive the torrent of water, and you finding similar grim humor in people throwing themselves out of the twin towers 9/11, for example. I don't know what media access you have access to, but what i've seen has been pretty bloody grim; ie: people loosing that struggle to survive in front of your eyes. Not very nice. Whilst it is good the globe is addressing a very natural disaster, and doing stuff like they are; your comment on humanity's own stupidity shouldn't be to lost, and if viewed when stood back, shouldn't be dismissed out of hand in this context; despite the fact I still find it hard to understand your amuzement at seeing people struggle from the oncomming wave. Why does it take a disaster of such magnitude to mobilize the world's financial resources into action? This is humanitys' own stupidity. Poverty is still the biggest 'cull' factor in the world, as Trej pointed out, there is an AIDs epidemic about to utterly destabilize the African continant at least.