Disaster by Choice: How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes

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Indigenous people in northern Sweden experience the mental health impact of losing their land, heritage, and livelihood. As prospects for space travel and settlement expand, mental and physical health risks and disaster risks must be managed. We feel the need to fight natural forces, to reclaim what weassume is ours, and to protect ourselves from what we perceive to be wrath from outside our communities. The enigmas Professor Michael Dine discusses are like landmarks on a fantastic journey to the edge of the universe. In this provocative book, Ilan Kelman argues that the true disaster is not caused by natural phenomena, but by human choices which leave people unprepared and at terrible risk.This attitude distracts us from the real causes of disasters: humanity’s decisions, as societies and as individuals. Disasters for all, whether affluent or poor, able or disabled, are caused by vulnerabilities, not hazards. They tell us how we’re doing at school, how much we weigh, who might win an election and whether the economy is booming.

A new scientific study explores how youth’s disaster-coping strategies can lead to maladjustment or adjustment.Science recounts a different story, however: disasters are not the consequence of natural causes; they are the consequence of human choices and decisions.

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He looks at the burgeoning immune therapies that could one day cure such life-threatening diseases as cancer. We feel the need to fight natural forces, to reclaim what we assume is ours, and to protect ourselves from what we perceive to be wrath from outside our communities.

A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique climates and weather patterns that make each part of the world different. However, eight houses within the burnt area were participating in the Wildfire Partners programme of mitigation measures. This Way to the Universe’ is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. They develop from the social preference to blame nature for the damage wrought, when in fact events such as earthquakes and storms are entirely commonplace environmental processes.Disasters arise when we fail to build suitable housing capable of withstanding 400 kph winds, fail to shun places subject to lava flows or tsunamis, or do not create a culture of warning and safe shelter for all – including for those with disabilities.