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| There are great results to be gained from direct action. This was shown by Srinivasan Soundara Rajan and Marko Peljhan at the Luminous Green symposium and by Suprabha Seshan at the Hands-on Change symposium. ((luminousgreen.org)) The Tsunamipants research project tapps into this tradition and hopefully with the same infectious enthusiasm. | There are great results to be gained from direct action. This was shown by Srinivasan Soundara Rajan and Marko Peljhan at the Luminous Green symposium and by Suprabha Seshan at the Hands-on Change symposium. ((luminousgreen.org)) The Tsunamipants research project tapps into this tradition and hopefully with the same infectious enthusiasm. | ||
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| + | == Case study. == | ||
| + | I made one case study by following the events around a particularly violent storm on January 18, 2007 in the Netherlands.\\ | ||
| + | [[Storm]] | ||
| ==== Solution/ | ==== Solution/ | ||
| == Working process and results.== | == Working process and results.== | ||
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| + | This research gave me a much richer picture of meteorology, | ||
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| + | The list of weather catastrophes: | ||
| + | * hurricanes / tornadoes | ||
| + | * storms | ||
| + | * thunderstorms and lightning | ||
| + | * snowstorms | ||
| + | * sandstorms | ||
| + | * extreme hydroliths, like giant hailstones | ||
| + | * avalanches | ||
| + | * landslides | ||
| + | * mud-streams | ||
| + | * lavastreams | ||
| + | * earth-quakes and tremors | ||
| + | * flooding | ||
| + | * tsunamis | ||
| + | * drought | ||
| + | * smoke and ash | ||
| + | * mist | ||
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| + | How they hurt: | ||
| + | * overheating / sunstroke | ||
| + | * hypothermia / frostbite | ||
| + | * UV-damage | ||
| + | * dehydration | ||
| + | * drowning | ||
| + | * falling through ice | ||
| + | * hunger | ||
| + | * and the various diseases that move trough refugee camps. | ||
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| + | Urban dangers: | ||
| + | * gas-leaks | ||
| + | * fire | ||
| + | * power-failure | ||
| + | * falling power-cables | ||
| + | * collapsing structures and large things falling over | ||
| + | * panicking masses | ||
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| + | Positive side-effects: | ||
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| + | * these horrors may result in Leapfrogging effects for the regions or nations affected. | ||
| + | * many superheroes got their power in accidents so this might create opportunities for those supernaturally inclined. | ||
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| What became apparent during the Tsunamipants project is the constant need for new angles. The first design was for a piece of clothing that can help to survive a disaster; the Tsunamipants. You can go on creating more designs for clothing, but the novelty wears off soon. So I moved to SUV-s with the Inflatable-hummer, | What became apparent during the Tsunamipants project is the constant need for new angles. The first design was for a piece of clothing that can help to survive a disaster; the Tsunamipants. You can go on creating more designs for clothing, but the novelty wears off soon. So I moved to SUV-s with the Inflatable-hummer, | ||
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