How many natural disasters are there?
Very few, according to this quote: “The scale of a disaster’s impact has much less to do with, say, an earthquake’s Richter force or a hurricane’s category strength than with the political economy of the country or region that it strikes.” “In many cases, nature’s contribution to ‘natural’ disasters is simply to expose the effects of deeper, structural causes – from global warming and unplanned urbanization to trade liberalization and political marginalization. The effects of man’s action are often evident – many natural catastrophes are un/natural in their origins”.” Source: Un/natural Disasters, Here and There By Stephen Jackson http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.
