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Jay Morales / AFP - Getty Images
A banana plantation lies in ruin in Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines, Dec. 7, 2012.
AFP – Getty Images reports — Hundreds of thousands of survivors of a deadly typhoon crammed into packed shelters on Dec. 7, braving the stench of corpses as the government vowed action to prevent storm disasters. Typhoon Bopha whipped the southern Philippines on Dec. 4, leaving at least 546 people dead and hundreds more missing in the deadliest natural disaster this year in a country regularly hit with quakes, floods and volcanic eruptions.
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Jay Morales / AFP - Getty Images
Uprooted coconut trees lie in ruin as residents and rescue workers look for survivors at a coconut plantation in the aftermath of Typhoon Bopha in Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines, Dec. 7.
Jay Morales / AFP - Getty Images
Uprooted banana trees lie at a plantation in Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines, Dec. 7.
Malacanang Photo Bureau / EPA
Trees lie uprooted in areas affected by Typhoon Bopha in Compostela Valley, southern Philippines, Dec. 7.
Reuters
Crops lie damaged in the aftermath of Typhoon Bopha in Compostela Valley, southern Philippines, Dec. 7.
NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
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Prayers to the people there to deal with this terrible disaster.
What I see are multiple hectares of denuded land. It's interesting how each time this happens it's treated as a singular event rather than a string of incidences connected to the same causes. Buckets of sympathy pour out and in a little while it's all forgotten until the next time it happens and the cycle continues without anyone taking responsibility or addressing the real causes. It's way past time to wake up people.