Disasters in sentence

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In the same way in which ethnic conflict and civil war are not natural but man-made disasters, their prevention and settlement does not happen automatically either.

And occasionally, there are disasters.

There's oil spills, environmental disasters, water rights disputes, breakaway republics, famine, endangered species and global warming.

So many important creative things can happen when people learn from disasters.

Some problems, such as wars and conflict, poverty and diseases and other natural and human-made disasters seem as if they may never go away.

Already this morning there were some allusions to the Africa that you hear about all the time: the Africa of HIV/AIDS, the Africa of malaria, the Africa of poverty, the Africa of conflict, and the Africa of disasters.

It has been used to help communities prepare for disasters.

It has been used to signal early warning in advance of weather-related disasters.

It has always been the elusive ideal to ensure full participation of people affected by disasters in the humanitarian effort.

When one of these tar sands tankers, carrying the dirtiest oil, 10 times as much as the Exxon Valdez, eventually hits a rock and goes down, we're going to have one of the worst ecological disasters this planet has ever seen.

So robots like this could be sent into collapsed buildings, to assess the damage after natural disasters, or sent into reactor buildings, to map radiation levels.

So in the industrialized world, we built walls that protect us from the externalities of our energy use; we can afford to clean up acute environmental disasters; and we can also afford to adapt to chronic conditions like climate change.

For example, our over-centralized grid is very vulnerable to cascading and potentially economy-shattering blackouts caused by bad space weather or other natural disasters or a terrorist attack.

It gets up into the sky and contributes to the disasters that we're now experiencing.

Forty-two million people were displaced by natural disasters in 2010.

Now, there was nothing particularly special about 2010, because, on average, 31 and a half million people are displaced by natural disasters every single year.

Last year alone, 99 federally declared disasters were on file with FEMA, from Joplin, Missouri, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to the Central Texas wildfires that just happened recently.

Now this fundamentally changes the way we respond to disasters, because gone are the horrid conditions inside a sports arena or a gymnasium, where people are crammed on these cots inside.

So, in closing, on this whole thing here is hopefully very soon we will not have to respond to these painful phone calls that we get after disasters where we don't really have anything to sell or give you yet.

In each of these major disasters — the tsunami in 2004, 250,000 dead, the Kashmiri earthquake in Pakistan, 2005, 85,000 dead, the Haitian earthquake, about 300,000 dead, more recently the awful earthquake-tsunami combination which struck Japan and its nuclear industry — in all of these instances, we see partnerships between international actors, interagency, private-public working with security forces to respond to this kind of natural disaster.

But it strikes me that the biggest problems we face, many of the biggest disasters that we've experienced, mostly haven't come from individuals, they've come from organizations, some of them bigger than countries, many of them capable of affecting hundreds, thousands, even millions of lives.

And we've been flying into disaster areas since this past January, setting up software, training residents and licensing the software to areas that are preparing for disasters.

Maybe then we'd spend less time worrying about serial killers and plane crashes, and more time concerned with the subtler and slower disasters we face: the silent buildup of plaque in our arteries, the gradual changes in our climate.

We are facing an unprecedented number, scale of disasters.

So we don't know, for example, how many people right now are being affected by disasters or by conflict situations.

So I was very disappointed that we are not working for society, even though there are so many people who lost their houses by natural disasters.

But I must say they are no longer natural disasters.

And in the investigations that followed those disasters, poor judgment as a result of extended shift work and loss of vigilance and tiredness was attributed to a big chunk of those disasters.

To understand PTSD, we first need to understand how the brain processes a wide range of ordeals, including the death of a loved one, domestic violence, injury or illness, abuse, rape, war, car accidents, and natural disasters.

Ninety-eight percent of this has nothing to do with natural disasters, and yet, people's charity, when they see a natural disaster, are wonderful.

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