Tuesday, May 30, 2006

"Compassion Fatigue"

What does that mean?
Well according to This NZ Herald Article:

"'Compassion fatigue' may be behind New Zealanders' slow response to the Indonesia quake disaster, which killed more than 5000 people and has left hundreds of thousands homeless.

New Zealand aid agencies said donations have been slow to come in since the magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit densely-populated central Java on Saturday.

The latest death toll is 5,427.

Oxfam New Zealand spokeswoman Prue Smith said it was possible that the sheer number of disasters over the last year -- including the Boxing Day Tsunami in South East Asia last year, and the massive quake in Kashmir in October -- had stretched the charity dollar."


Mother Nature is not happy with us.