When the subject is producing in order to sell, the minimum criterion accepted by large corporations is that of just-in–time. Parts need to appear on the factory’s conveyor belt at the precise moment that the robotic arm is extended to pick them up and attach them to the merchandise being produced.  

When it comes to speculating, then the minimum criterion accepted by the large banks is information in real time, 24 hours a day, with monitoring centres at various points around the globe to ensure that not a fraction of a second is lost during the deal, and to know the exact moment to pull out before the Stock Market crashes, taking with it a country’s entire reserves, as well as the precise moment to start speculating again, using the money that a country on its knees can manage to cobble together to assist the corporations that did not act honourably in their business dealings...

However, when a tragedy occurs, the quickest response that can be managed is weeks, months, and years even, regardless of the fact that that human lives are being lost by the hundreds, thousands with each instant that goes by. 

Governments of the great powers are so worried yet they have not even been able to create a system of rapid response for global emergencies, with regional bases and the necessary resources to deal with tragedies like that in Haiti. Such a system could, as an immediate response, have personnel occupy positions to tend to the victims, creating a minimum standard of aid structure, moving equipped vessels to the area in question, with trained teams ready to disembark and start operations, reducing panic and re-establishing primary communications and telecommunications, installing emergency posts, camps and field hospitals...       

Nothing is impossible where there is good will and cooperation between governments, at least for this much. Once the tragedy (tsunami, volcano, cyclone or earthquake) alarm has been sounded, the emergency support system would go into action, already knowing exactly what has to be done, with water and food supplies at the ready, along with equipment for clearing rubble, doctors, police and anything else necessary.   

Expensive? Look, how much did it cost the world to rush to the aid of a half a dozen irresponsible banks? How much does it cost to invade a country on false pretences and prop it up after the invasion for several years, pretending that the only reason for all this is not to guarantee oil supplies? How much is lost every day through badly coordinated humanitarian aid, which arrives late anyway, giving the problems time to get worse and making it more expensive to solve them?  

Governments who don’t think it’s important to create such a protection network, on the grounds that it would help only underdeveloped countries such as Haiti or Indonesia, which have been used to daily tragedies for centuries on end, would do well to remember Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed New Orleans in 2005, and recall that the US government did not have the money to help because the funds for this were being used in Iraq...Earthquakes in Europe and Japan can also be mentioned in this respect, showing that even superpowers can be in need if sudden help, which could be given by a multinational force like the one suggested above.    

The impact of climate changes in the form of storms growing in frequency and gravity is already clear. The reasons for this are of not the point of interest here, but rather what these changes cause in terms of world tragedies in the next few years. And what to do about this to reduce the negative effects

Training teams is something armies know how to do. Organising rapid sea support strategy is what the navies of many countries are able to organise. There’s no big secret to getting an immediate action force into place by plane, as long as there has been advance planning. The UN Peacekeeping Force has already learnt how to operate all this.
 
The problem, however, is in providing a ‘rapid response’ for all this structure in an inter-coordinated and efficient way yesterday and not several weeks later. And this is nothing more than a question of logistics, the kind of situation that companies face when they want to ensure that items from around the world arrive at the exact moment they are needed on the assembly line, facing the same earthquakes and tsunamis...