In all fairness sextup may have a point. If global warming and climate change are real then carbon dioxide emissions are to blame for a lot of bad news and a lot more to come and these guys down the road are pumping black gold out of the ground as fast as they can whip the filipino rig workers.
Possibly not the best place to air the view however if you read it carefully sextup is nursing a certain well-camouflaged and slightly shallow but nonetheless compassionate empathy with our filipino brother slaves. It does seem hypocritical to send blankets and other disaster relief to places from where the dollar-a-day labourers are sourced who are then worked to the bone here. Give the local filipino labourers a pay rise and it will work it's way back to the families who need it.
Stex, my own maid is also a generally lowly-paid filipina but she gets the occasional "bonus" so I'm hoping not to be damned, eternally or otherwise. Not much cash but the crap job she does is worth every "fill"......