Re: [xml-dev] Responding to Katrina (offtopic even if XML is part of the solution)

> I still dont understand why one would choose to live in areas that are under
sea level so near the ocean.

People settle an area. Generations give birth and people remain there, even as
conditions change.

There was a fascinating exhibit of satellite images at the CN Tower in Toronto a
few years ago. It included photos of Africa that were taken years apart. The
images from later years had been taken after a drought and years of war. They
showed much less green and a lot more brown. There was a loss of farm land, but
poor people can't easily escape their surroundings. There was famine in
Ethiopia.