What are loud emergencies and silent emergencies?
Correct answer: D. Loud emergencies are the humanitarian crises that receive media attentions, like genocide, ethnic cleansing and famine. Silent emergencies do not get media attention, like slow death from malnutrition and poverty
- A. Loud emergencies are those that become significant in international public opinion, silent emergencies are those that are a crisis of domestic politics
- B. Loud emergencies happen in the developed world, and threaten to kill thousands, silent emergencies are smaller crises of violence within the developing world
- C. Loud emergencies concern safety and security, silent emergencies are characterized with economic crises
- D. Loud emergencies are the humanitarian crises that receive media attentions, like genocide, ethnic cleansing and famine. Silent emergencies do not get media attention, like slow death from malnutrition and poverty
Explanation
Loud emergencies attract extensive media and international attention, as in genocide, ethnic cleansing, or famine. Silent emergencies involve less visible but prolonged suffering, such as deaths caused by malnutrition and poverty.
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