Thursday, February 13, 2014

Man-made disasters and Human-induced disasters

Man-made disasters is a is disaster due to human intent, negligence, or error; or involving a failure
of a man-made system. Examples of man-made disasters are listed below

  1. Bhopal Gas Tragedy involving leakage of Methyl IsoCyanide from Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal in December 1984
  2. Leakage of TCDD (Tetra Chloro Dibenzo paraDioxin) from a pesticide plant in Seveso, Italy

Human-induced disasters

  1. The "Love-Canal disaster" can be classified as a human-induced disaster as it was not intended. However the actions committed resulted in a disaster whose devastating effects were experienced several decades later.
  2. Human Induced Disasters are those such as the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, and Global Warming brought about by man using too much fossil fuels, and water diversion such as in Russia that has caused the Ural Sea to almost become bone dry. 
  3. Coal mine disasters that regularly occur in China because of lack of safety standards.

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