People in the world's forty eight-poorest countries are times as likely to die from climate related disasters as people in wealthier countries.

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People in the world's forty-eight-poorest countries are 10 times as likely to die from climate-related disasters as people in wealthier countries.

The reason is that these poor countries do not have the money to invest in the right kind of preventive programs and do not have the infrastructure to resists catastrophes such as earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, or heavy storms.

These countries do not have an effective response program to swiftly react in these dangerous situations. another problem is the lack of good hospitals and medical doctors that can attend to the victims of climate disasters.

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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