Gabura - From Daily Life to Disaster

The first file here no longer opens - you get a message - 'The page you trying to reach does not exist, or has been moved. Please use the menus or the search box to find what you are looking for.'</p> The second one and third one seem to be identical but they do work.</p> The film shows a cyclone hitting a village in Bangladesh and what makes this video particularly interesting is that the person filming it was in the village already and the video starts with film that s/he took on the previous day, when people were all going about their lives in a happy and normal way. </p> Then the film cuts to a series of brief scenes at timed intervals during the next morning, giving the wind speed and showing how the devastation developed. </p> I was left wondering how many of the kids you saw racing about in the first scenes were still alive at the end - and whether the distressed woman shown, was searching for her children, unwilling to be evacuated without them. </p> Important info given above - these more powerful cyclones and hurricanes, floods (thinking of Pakistan and Australia) and droughts (currently causing famine in much of northern Africa) which are all causing great suffering, loss of life and destruction of homes etc - are caused by the global warming which is due to industrialisation and the buring of fossil fuels. These are in the large part man-made and not simply natural disasters.