Palmyra, then the Brazilian Museum and now Notre Dame. Unimaginable disasters.
I agree but everyone in Paris is not french.
Much is being made of two wealthy families pledging 300m Euro to aid in it's restoration.... money that could be used to fix so many other problems.
In the year 1584, a fire broke out in the high wooden crossing tower, more majestic than the current one. Soon the whole tower was set ablaze, and it collapsed upon the cathedral itself, taking with it much of the roof up to point where the organ was situated. In 1830, another fire damaged the western tower, which was repaired by 1842.
Typical; a wealthy person does something nice, and then all the left wing supporters immediately starts going full on “you don’t need that much money” .. “your money should benefit others” blah blah blah ...sorry I don’t speak communist bull crap......as if it’s their duty to serve you or something They worked hard for their money, it’s their well earned money and they can give it to what ever cause they want, and we should thankful for what they give.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I agree ... if we lived in a perfect world.But in a perfect world these two wealthy families would already have donated the 300 million Euro to a better cause before the Notre Dame Cathedral burned down, and they didn't... So I think it's fair to assume that, if this dissaster wouldn't have taken place, they would've just held on to their money.If the top 5% of richest people in each country would "give" half of what they own to the top 50% of poorest people in their country, the world would be a much better place, but we all know that this is not going to happen any time soon. In this case, the 300 million Euro wasn't going to benefit anybody else than its owners anyway, and at least now it will be spend to restore an important piece of cultural heritage.And let's not fool ourselves, all of these important landmarks cost a ton of money just to keep them safe from deteriorating, even without a disaster like this. But if we as a society would not have done this in the past (and wouldn't keep on doing it in the future) there wouldn't be much left standing to remind us of our own past. Just my 2 cents .
I'm not saying what they should do with their money, I just think it' says something about the mentality of some people when this is what they would rather spend their money on.Yes, some rich people work hard for their money. Some work insanely hard. Some just inherited it. Billions of poor around the world work hard for their money too.
A week where the worst thing in the news is an electrical fault is a pretty good week for humanity.