20 Examples of Man-made Disasters

They are disasters the events that occur within a community and that result in enormous damage or destruction, enough to alter the normal functioning of that place leaving a large number of civilian victims, and at the same time serious consequences in economic and environmental.

On many occasions, the concept of disaster is associated only with events produced by nature. However, the category of man-made disasters It is established to speak of the danger that man's actions can reach the condition of disaster. For example: World War II, smallpox epidemic, episodes of terrorism.

There are many issues that can make human activity accrue disaster situations.

Man transforms his geography by overpopulating space with mega cities, and establishing itself by means of force in physical spaces previously reserved exclusively for nature. It is the species with the greatest predatory power, since its capacity for destruction has the same impetus and strength as its capacity for development.

Social disasters

In addition to the events produced by the advance of man in nature, disasters can be caused by a purely cultural issue, that is, a disaster caused by the generalization of violence within a society.

Sometimes human beings inflict suffering intentionally to others, which is motivated by cultural issues such as ideology or extreme nationalism.

Violence as a social process dates from ancient times, and it is correct to say that it has also evolved, developing from the most precarious battle between men without weapons, to battles with bladed weapons and then with chemical weapons: Currently, violence can be perpetrated between people at very great distances through machines, thousands of kilometers from the event they are producing.

Examples of man-made disasters

Danger and protection

Exposure to man-made disasters is one of the causes that lags a country in terms of human development, and coverage regarding this class of events on the contrary makes some countries become the best quality of lifetime. However, violence can also be generated within countries that have better indicators in this regard.

One of the fundamental causes of man-made disasters is the lack of preventionIt is thought that with the levels of technological advance produced to date, many of the disasters can be easily avoided.

Consequences of man-made disasters

The greatest damages in man-made disasters are the civil losses, economic and production losses, also in terms of institutional services and community organization.

However, when it comes to cultural processes, this type of disaster can have a deeper consequence in a society, which is separation. absolute of its members, motivated by the differences that the violence process brought: it is very difficult to overcome these differences, even decades episode.

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