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The Italian food had a death toll of 17 and this one is over 11,000. So, ya know, there's a bit of a difference.
Different houses, different living standards. You could end up saying their poorer conditions lead to this catastrophe, but dams woukd have probably failed anyway, in one way or another one. If any nation could become easily rich thanks to a government change, it would have happens yesterday. Those nations are destroyed in a century and partially rebuilt the following century. You know who usually decides
Different living standards could have caused 3 factors of 10 increase in deaths? That sounds a bit extreme. If they had a functioning government (read: it hadn't been destroyed by the west), surely that government could have kept up with the upkeep of the dams and fortified them, knowing that extreme weather events are coming?
there are actually two governments in libya