Obviously, if the coming and going between planets should result in a biological disaster to human beings or their principal sources of nourishment, the stature of man, the species, would be diminished conceivably to zero.
Bertolt Brecht ascribed these disasters to human greed and folly: "Famines do not simply occur – they are organized by the grain trade".
'The superfluous women are a disaster to the human race,' said the Daily Mail in 1921.
PAGE A18 TELEVISION SHIFTS -- After three days of flood scenes, television news shifted from recording a devastating natural disaster to exposing human failures.
"If such preventive measures are not taken," he says, "the stage will be set at a progressive rate for the future occurrence of a similar disaster to the human population".
Leg or hand amputation, a disaster to the human or animal body, is caused by osteosarcoma [1].
As mentioned above, we speculate that the lower risk of PTSD after natural disasters relative to human-made/technological disasters [ 5, 6], and the historical and cultural experience with tsunami in these areas may explain the lower risk of PTSD relative to depression in our sample.
In Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, she enumerates the process wherein Big Business uses disasters, both man-made (like Iraq) and naturally occurring (like the East Indian tsunami disaster) to capitalize on human pain and suffering.
The ladders, doors, valves and rubble of the DRC are meant to test how well robots would cope if sent into a disaster area inaccessible to humans, such as a stricken nuclear power station or chemical plant.
We upgraded our field response teams so that they could respond not only to disasters, but to human-caused crises such as puppy mills, animal fighting operations, and hoarding cases.
