Natural disaster

所以他们这次的强震......呃造成了有53人的死亡啊。

是。所以对地震相关或 natural disaster 相关的 vocabulary 不熟的朋友们呢，欸这一种的话呢，比如说不管是讲 typhoon 或 earthquake，它相关的这个 vocabulary 呢，就是透过我们这样子的 articles 来做练习啦。

嗯，天灾跟气候其实——

是的。

Very exciting.

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Time now for our weekly money news roundup, where we break down the latest in the world of finance to help you be smarter with your money.

Today, we're talking about a corner of the prediction market world, people betting on weather and natural disasters.

Say what? Our news colleague, Ana Hill Hoskie, is here with some research on these markets.

So then that causes accessibility issues.

um it does quinn said all natural disasters are more real and terrifying lately my hometown got hit with a tornado yeah and seeing all the the wildfires every time i turn on my canadian news in the morning god bless you all my canadian friends thank you for your cbc global report that's how i get my news in the morning while i make my breakfast and turn it on because i'm like i want

i want

at least a little outsider perspective on what's going on here.

That's how this war is being fought.

It's not fought with tanks and bombs, natural disasters, immigration, you know, mainstream media.

That's how this war is being fought.

Don't look at it.

The conventional stuff that you see on TV with bombs and nuclear weapons, that's all distraction, man.

Where they're getting you is mainstream media.

Where they're getting you is natural disasters.

Where they're getting you is in the political realm, passing these crazy laws.

Lost and wasted.

Why am I alone? Who made me this way? Natural disaster.

All alone, alone.

[upbeat music] Why am I alone? I feel hollow.

Natural disaster.

Natural disaster.

Who made me this lost? Who made me this way? Blinding, spinning, shining, bright and burning, ruined and hurting.

Blinding, spinning, shining, bright and burning, ruined and hurting.

I have a quick follow-up question, 'cause I've been curious.

Um, and I'm, I'm very curious just in terms of when we have natural disasters and things like that, and like that happen.

I imagine, I've imagined in the past that that's the Earth, Earth's way of cleansing, clearing out energy, you know, whatever.

So maybe if you have some sort of higher perspective, because I feel like it, it kinda relates to the conversation we had at the beginning where we were talking about pets and animals and how like that, like, so how do we...

You know, obviously the Earth needs to do its thing in cleansing and clearing energy, but then there's also the actual natural disaster and the, the humans that are affected.

And, you know, how do we navigate that process? And, and is there a higher perspective that we can begin to understand around just even coping and navigating the natural disasters that will happen? Obviously, we have no control over them.

So how do you perceive that?

[lip smack] Yeah.