Senator Joe Lieberman intends to propose building a worldwide tsunami warning network to give people time to move away from the coastlines when giant tidal waves are detected heading in their direction.
This is long overdue. With the utter devastation that we have seen on our television screens since the day after Christmas from South Asia, what more proof do we need?
Millions spent on such a system will not stop the waves from smashing everything in reach, but if we could save hundreds of thousands or millions of lives in the process, that’s well worth it.
Now that global attention is on how deadly tsunamis can be, it is the perfect time for nations to participate in setting up a global warning system.
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