Avoiding Natural Disasters

Avoiding Natural Disasters Natural disasters have destroyed more people than the war on a global scale. According to UN statistics, in the last decade more than 1 million people died due to natural disasters, 8 billion people died in health, family, livelihoods and economic and structural losses of $ 665 billion have occurred. It is virtually impossible to prevent natural disasters such as hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

Among this non-fiction, Timothy Eagan has expressed his desire for the government to adopt a more robust policy to avoid natural disasters. Eagan 's worst moment was a tragic story about the farmers who decided to stay in the narrow areas of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado in the plains during the drought of the 1930' s. This disaster called "dust bowl" is mainly considered as an artificial problem. Egan believes that agriculture is a direct cause of drought, wind and dust, but depicts his role as a tough entrepreneur who has been deceived by unsustainable farmland. Those known as "Sodbusters" entered this area in the 19th century when the federal government sold almost zero land. They quickly torn wide areas of grassland that they have settled recently to grow wheat. This sudden terrain change blows the wind from the soil accumulated for thousands of years.

Disasters can be broadly divided into two categories. The first is natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes. Although it is impossible to prevent natural disasters, risk management measures (avoidance of disasters and appropriate planning, etc.) may be useful. The second category is an artificial disaster such as dangerous goods spill, infrastructure failure, bioterrorism, devastating IT vulnerability, or implementation failure. In such cases, supervision, testing, and mitigation plans are very valuable.