Rebecca Barber writes:
There have been a lot of comparisons thrown around in the past couple of weeks in relation to the Pakistan floods. First, we heard that the floods were the worst in a generation. Then it was the worst natural disaster in the country's history. Then – the one we hear time and again – the number of people affected was more than the Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the Haiti earthquake put together. Read the story here.