How to Deal with Natural Disasters
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How to Deal with Natural Disasters
American society seems to overlook the suffering and the pain that the victims of hurricanes have gone through. While the country has several memorials that seek to mourn individuals who have encountered terrorism and war, few or none is focused on the ones that have died due to natural disasters. One critical thing that needs to be done is that the society should shift their focus from “natural” and focus more on the impact these catastrophes have on humanity. Besides, these disasters are not a result of natural causes but result from the country’s intense industrialization. While this development helped the rich, they were left behind to affect the poor and the politically disenfranchised. “The poor, the politically disenfranchised, the elderly and sick — they pay a much higher price for disaster than anyone else, and their names are heavily reflected in the rolls of the victim.” With this reason, most of these issues are never highlighted, yet the people continue to suffer.
I think that time has come the society should listen to the plight of the disenfranchised due to the disaster. It is not practical that we are willing to put up a memorial for war and terrorism, yet we are not willing to look at these natural disasters. Both of them have an equal impact on the victims, and thus they should be treated with the same magnitude. It is critical to come together and invest more in trying to deal with these catastrophes. In the same way that resources have been put aside to ensure that societies cannot dig back to terrorism or war, the same effort should be put into dealing with natural disasters.