Meltdown planet Earth?, Is Katrina ominous sign of future Options

According to the scientists were going to have one of the worst hurricane, typhoon etc seasons ever recored in America. Katrina's damage has been massive, far more than the average storm. Of course it's unfortunate that so many have died.

I'm mainly wondering, who here thinks that this is really just a period of natural climate change, or if this is ominous sign that the world's eco-terrorism will lead to greater and greater natural disasters until earth is just a junk heap.

My personal belief is that the world is changing for the better, but by being narrow minded and not understanding the true nature of the sentiment of terrorism most of the world will abuse the resources of the world will become a very bad place to live. Of course, I know that we as a whole believe science will rescue us from everything and it will be interesting to see if science really does supply us with those things which we need. I'm interested to hear what everyone else thinks about this.

Just found this story on the BBC news website. Illustrates how some noble folk will help others at great personal risk...

At 8137 Oleander Street - the Golean Banquet and Reception Hall - Eva Morgan leaned out a second-storey window in response to Mr Mooney's call.

"Where you taking people?" she wanted to know.

They explained there was a mandatory evacuation on.

"There's going to be nothing here for a month - no stores, no water, no food, nothing," Mr Mooney shouted up to her.

"I know," she said. "I got five people up here who need to get out. But they need a lot of help."

Mrs Morgan, it turned out, had stayed behind with her family and a friend, Andrew Smith, to rescue other people in the neighbourhood.

In a boat smaller than Mr Henry's, Mr Smith had been cruising the neighbourhood searching for elderly and disabled people trapped in their homes.

He and the Morgans had brought about 40 people into the second-storey banquet hall over the course of the week, carrying many up the stairs because they could not walk.

As rescue craft passed, they hauled the people they had saved back down the stairs and sent them outside the city to safety.

'Water everywhere'

Those helped to leave by the Morgans and Mr Smith included: Joseph Miller, 59, partly paralysed due to a spinal cord injury; Mark Myles, 52, deaf, slender and withdrawn; Joseph Butler, 78, clutching a walking stick - and his wife, Mary Butler, a spry 76-year-old who described how she and her husband had weathered Katrina on Monday and gone to bed thinking the worst was past.

"Then we woke up on Tuesday morning and there was water everywhere," she said, still startled by the memory days later.

She had filled a bathtub with water before the storm hit, and had stockpiled tins of soup, which she and her husband ate cold.

Finally, on Saturday, Mr Smith and the Morgans found them - and a day later, handed them over to the burly Mr Mooney, who heaved them into the boat as gently as he could.

Mr Pierce, 40, who had helped bring people down the steps, joined the evacuees, but Mr Smith and the Morgans stayed behind.

"Yeah, we'll get out in a little while," Mr Smith said, leaning against a handrail with a grin. "But we know there's more people around here still."