Local incompetence exacerbated the disaster: in Orleans Parish, for instance, where 60,000 households do not own a car, hundreds of city buses which might have shipped out stranded people were left to be swamped by the rising waters.Still, Washington is mostly at fault.
Critics allege that emergency services mismanagement and lax regulations on private landowners have greatly exacerbated the disaster.
The erosion of institutions, population displacement, and the loss of livelihoods in ongoing conflicts in Somalia, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Niger, and Mali, for example, all exacerbated the disasters that did occur.
"The bombing victimizes the innocent, exacerbates the humanitarian disaster and creates widespread resentment across the Muslim world," the statement says.
One big challenge is teasing out how intensive coastal development and wetland reclamation may have exacerbated the marine disaster, and how onshore rebuilding may degrade the marine environment.
Even as Trump stood in awe of the damage unleashed by Harvey this week: ("Nobody has ever seen this much water... The water has never been seen like this, to this extent," he told a crowd in Texas) he is unlikely to vocalize the role that climate change played in exacerbating this disaster.
These factors delayed transportation of relief supplies to the affected areas, exacerbating the impact to those already badly affected by the disaster.
Today, however, the many gaps have exacerbated the current catastrophe, a humanitarian disaster whose human impact more than rivals our twin tragedies of 9/11 and Katrina.
Natural disasters such as these continue to plague the Philippines, exacerbating the challenges caused by poverty and simmering conflict, and creating barriers to equitable access to quality education.
In addition, the sharply reduced effective irrigation area exacerbated the increased agricultural disaster area.
