{"id":240673,"date":"2023-02-20T14:48:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=240673"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:48:25","slug":"unnatural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/unnatural-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Unnatural disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is what Ey\u00fcp Muh\u00e7u, the head of the body that represents architects in Turkey, said to the BBC<\/a> on the subject of the recent earthquakes.<\/p>\n

“The priority of the central government was not to make the cities safe, but to implement some projects that were solely planned for maximising profits. For this reason, 65% of the current building stock in Turkey is risky. And no measures have been implemented regarding these risky structures.”<\/p>\n

Never was it more literally true to say that profit kills. As long as capitalism lasts, the rich win while the poor pay, and avoidable tragedies like the Turkey\/Syria earthquakes will recur, in which blind greed turns a natural event or an accident into a deadly catastrophe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-240673","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/240673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}