WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:04.010 Text: We cannot eliminate disasters, but we can mitigate risk. We can reduce damage and we can save more lives. 00:00:04.010 --> 00:00:08.537 Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General 00:00:08.568 --> 00:00:10.260 Actions: A tree on a hill in a thunderstorm; all the other trees have been felled. 00:00:10.260 --> 00:00:12.233 A man arrives with an ax on his shoulder. 00:00:12.233 --> 00:00:16.576 He chops the tree down. 00:00:16.576 --> 00:00:17.814 The tree falls. 00:00:17.814 --> 00:00:19.403 The man runs away to the other side of the hill. 00:00:19.403 --> 00:00:25.426 A landslide hurtles down from the top of the hill, catches the chopped tree, drowns a village in mud, reaches a stream. 00:00:25.426 --> 00:00:26.910 A woman watches from the other bank, is drowned in mud too. 00:00:26.910 --> 00:00:28.641 Parched, cracked earth. 00:00:28.641 --> 00:00:29.799 Three huts, a dead buffalo; further back, a woman in a pink dress. 00:00:29.799 --> 00:00:31.582 A man tries to pump water into a bucket, gets only a few drops. 00:00:31.582 --> 00:00:33.440 Another man, disconsolate, on his doorstep. 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:35.586 A woman carries a bucket to a maize field 00:00:35.586 --> 00:00:41.909 where another man pours the last drops of water from a bucket on withered maize. 00:00:41.909 --> 00:00:45.313 A skinny she-buffalo - dead buffaloes - a woman walks, carrying a bucket. 00:00:45.313 --> 00:00:48.090 A school room: kids sitting, the teacher, standing, carries some books 00:00:48.090 --> 00:00:50.478 A crack appears in the wall behind her - kids point and scream. 00:00:50.478 --> 00:00:51.267 The teacher drops her books. 00:00:51.267 --> 00:00:52.563 School from outside - the "School" sign splits, then falls. 00:00:52.563 --> 00:00:54.444 People, panicked, run in the streets of the slum. 00:00:54.444 --> 00:00:55.648 Slum houses fall down. 00:00:55.648 --> 00:00:58.363 Lights go off in the big modern buildings behind the slum. 00:00:58.363 --> 00:00:59.417 A dust cloud hides everything. 00:00:59.417 --> 00:01:01.059 Text: since 2000 00:01:01.059 --> 00:01:04.009 almost ONE MILLION killed 00:01:04.009 --> 00:01:06.058 more than TWO BILLION affected 00:01:06.058 --> 00:01:09.031 more than ONE TRILLION dollars lost 00:01:09.031 --> 00:01:11.001 TO DISASTERS 00:01:11.001 --> 00:01:13.042 but ONLY 00:01:13.042 --> 00:01:18.031 1% of international aid money was spent to reduce the impact of disasters 00:01:18.031 --> 00:01:22.086 when just 10% would protect development gains 00:01:23.046 --> 00:01:25.071 & save 00:01:26.205 --> 00:01:30.235 THOUSANDS OF LIVES & BILLIONS OF DOLLARS 00:01:30.235 --> 00:01:31.157 Actions: A tree on a hill. 00:01:31.157 --> 00:01:31.657 A leaf falls. 00:01:31.657 --> 00:01:32.969 A man arrives, carrying an ax. 00:01:32.969 --> 00:01:35.665 He chops at the tree. 00:01:35.665 --> 00:01:37.330 There are other trees around. 00:01:37.330 --> 00:01:39.103 Further down, people are working on an anti-landslide wall. 00:01:39.103 --> 00:01:41.215 The tree falls - the man runs away from a thunderstorm, to the other side of the hill. 00:01:41.215 --> 00:01:42.819 A landslide is mainly blocked by the wall. 00:01:42.819 --> 00:01:45.192 Some rivulets of mud trickle into the village. 00:01:45.192 --> 00:01:46.642 A woman is carrying a basket full of vegetables. 00:01:46.642 --> 00:01:48.369 Parched, cracked earth. 00:01:48.369 --> 00:01:49.157 Three huts, further back, a woman in a pink dress. 00:01:49.157 --> 00:01:51.518 A man pumps water into a hose. 00:01:51.518 --> 00:01:53.504 In the village, bags labeled "Drought Resistant Seeds". The man on his doorstep looks happy. He's holding a glass of water. 00:01:53.504 --> 00:01:54.677 In the maize field, a man is working a watering system fed by the hose shown before. 00:01:54.677 --> 00:01:59.573 A woman sprays water on luscious maize plants. 00:01:59.573 --> 00:02:02.423 A healthy buffalo, a bag of drought resistant seeds. 00:02:02.423 --> 00:02:04.935 Other buffaloes, a teacher carries books. 00:02:04.935 --> 00:02:07.123 She enters a classroom. 00:02:07.123 --> 00:02:10.552 A crack appears on the wall behind her; children point at it. 00:02:10.552 --> 00:02:12.602 School entrance, from outside. The teacher comes out calmly 00:02:12.602 --> 00:02:14.452 and directs the children in the evacuation. 00:02:14.452 --> 00:02:19.931 View of the city: lots of dust from the earthquake but the school and most houses are still standing. 00:02:19.931 --> 00:02:21.789 The dust cloud hides everything. 00:02:21.789 --> 00:02:25.046 Text: EVERY 1 dollar spent on preparedness 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:31.050 SAVES 7 dollars in response 00:02:31.050 --> 00:02:33.000 ACT NOW 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:41.332 ACT NOW, SAVE LATER - UN OCHA - UNDP