Ignacio Ramonet has written in the January edition of Le Monde Diplomatique and article about the Tsunami. I am not sure whether it is also in the original teks or it is only in the translation that it sound as if Ignacio Ramonet is unhappy that the Western societies are welthy. I mean I get the point that he is pointing out that if the South Asian countries were able to predict and react, as such as the countries like America or Japan are, they the catastrophe would have been smaller. (The English edition is not posted yet unfortunately. Here is the Persian one) He writes:

"اگر چنين دريالرزه اي در اقيانوس آرام رخ داده بود،شمار قربا نيان بسيار کمتر مي شد، زيرا دولتهاي مجاور اين اقيانوس، بنا به ابتکار ٢ قدرت بزرگ يعني ژاپن و آمريکا، سيستم رديابي و اطلاع رساني اي براه انداخته اند که قبل از حرکت «امواج کشنده» ، اهالي سواحل اقيانوس آرام را خبر دار مي کند و از آنها مي خواهد به پناهگاه ها بشتابند. اما تهيه، به راه اندازي و نگهداري از چنين سيستمي قيمتي سرسام آور دارد."