Increase the federal expense intended for to repair natural damages

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Natural phenomena and human disasters
Increase the federal expense intended for to repair natural damages
By: Carlos Damián December 06, 2010
The drought SG: the figure of 24 billion; 4 times as much as the last year
México. – Though there is about 20 million of Mexicans that reside in sensitive zones to hurricanes, lack by be developed early alert programs or monitoring systems before floods as well as against drought in spite, in fact that are pillars of the National System of Civil Protection, indicate expert. In total it is considered a territory of 800 thousand square kilometers that faces risks by the hurricanes.

According to data of the environment and natural resources Secretariat (Department), divulged in the National Strategy of Climatic Change, the damages that cause the hydrometeorology phenomena were duplicated in recent decades, so only "during the years 90’s of the past century more than 90 percent of the persons that expired by effects of the natural phenomena, lost the life in hurricanes, droughts, storms and floods".

It is indicated that "part of the problem to carry to the science of the climate to the risk management before extreme meteorological conditions is the existence of a unable meteorological system to giving response the growing needs of monitoring, forecast and alert for the planning in agriculture, urban development or the civil protection adapted to the modernity and to the changes and needs of a so heterogeneous country".

Currently it given the extreme condition of the ecosystems, already it is an illusion to suppose "that we can handle them sustainably, yet without the climatic trends that we experience and that will continue, according to anyone of the moderate climatic stages". Furthermore consider that "the change paces are being accelerating more rapid than what were thought until some years ago as happens, for example, in the case in the increase in the level middle of the sea or the thaw of the poles". By so much, the productive structures and of government have little time to face the problem.

Natural phenomena
19 of September are commemorated 25 years of the earthquakes that jolted to the heartland and that caused an immeasurable human and material destruction in Mexico City. For a cruel coincidence, the date found country before a new emergency situation, this time by the entry of the Karl hurricane to Veracruz, the one which were added tenacious rains in several entities of the Republic. Makes a century quarter, the earthquake let to discover to an indolent government, passive and inertial, that it was not capable of reacting in adequate form entity the circumstances, but put also on old evidence human scars: the real-estate and constructing companies voracity that manufactured feeble constructions.
The earthquakes, the hurricanes and other phenomena are not predictable, but yes foreseeable. In 1985 were known that the Mexico City is booked in a region of great geological movement and, however was tolerated the improper constructions proliferation and was permitted the lack of maintenance ancient and recent constructions. Significantly, the lion's share of the real estate that was come down they had been built in second half of the century XX. Of the same form; in the vast national territory border that it is exposed to hurricanes, year with year are produced considerable affectations to the population, no matter how are known beforehand the incidence probabilities of such phenomena. Other so much can be said of the accessions in lands with risk of lack of force between the joints of the land or flooding.

The state and the institutions do not have response capacity before events of such magnitude, that they do not satisfy the needs of all, that take advantage the natural disasters to stop politically to the persons and organizations, that has a short term vision and immediate, that them likes to appear in the media as the large protagonists, that attempt to agglutinate to their around any type of social organization and from there, to mark the directors, that they are unable to understanding the citizen demands and them results incomprehensible that the people is left of the paternalistic plans and that renounce it to be treated as damaged and that assume their social subject paper. In many occasions the persons have social conscience of their paper in the society and demand freedom and independence, and that the political class would have to observe its processes and to make what they them demanded.

In this context, the tragic current circumstances in Veracruz, Tabasco, Populates, Hidalgo and other waterlogged entities, as was the earthquake of 1985 in the Mexico valley, a human disaster. The immediate contingency demand a rapid and solidarity reaction of the citizenship for auxiliary to the damaged by Karl and by the intensive preceding rains. It will be which were the degree of efficiency of the federal authorities, state and municipal to confront the catastrophe, the population can not be inclined toward the indifference and it must support to the conational that they have resulted affected. Also it must demand that the help flow to who more need it and than its allotment will be detached from corporative logic, customize and rebellious. However in a historical perspective we reflect on the disability and the lack of will-power of the governments for the provision of the people of Mexico. (La Jornada, Sociedad y Justicia, p. 42, 14 de October, 2010)