Disaster 072
Disaster 072 : "Not every windstorm, earth-tremor, or rush of water is a catastrophe. A catastrophe is known by its works; that is to say, by the occurrence of disaster. So long as the ship rides out the storm, so long as the city resists the earth-shocks, so long as the levees hold, there is no disaster. It is the collapse of the cultural protections that constitutes the disaster proper" (Carr 1932, 211). "Carr's conclusion signifies that disasters are the result of human activities, not of natural or supranatural forces. Disasters are simply the collapse of cultural protections; thus, they are principally man-made. Deductively, mankind is responsible for the consequences of his actions as well as of his omissions" (Dombrowsky 1998, 24-25)
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