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Metro Manila had long ago set itself up for its own destruction by flooding

Posted on August 8, 2012 By benign0 54 Comments on Metro Manila had long ago set itself up for its own destruction by flooding
Metro Manila had long ago set itself up for its own destruction by flooding

According to Mark McDonald in a New York Times blog post, the recent floods that hit Metro Manila this week “seem to have caused little public anger over further municipal dysfunction in the densely populated capital of more than 10 million” and that, instead, “Filipinos demonstrated a remarkable civic spirit as they shared news of…

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