Man Made Disasters

Language always surrounds Natural Disasters and rarely focuses on some of the perpetuated man made disasters than perpetuate or make worse the effects of a natural disaster. When disaster occurs who gets the help and who gets the help faster are very realistic concerns. The example widely used in the North American context is Hurricane Katarina in New Orleans. In the first place the Levy system (that was built as a replacement for natural environmental measures to deal with floods) was not built well enough. But the areas it broke through to and caused the most flooding were generally the poorest areas of the city, where the poor and racilzied individuals lived. They were flooded the most and yet as the city began to fix itself after it was drying the places that received the most money and attention were the flashy, rich, touristy areas of the city while many people were left without housing alternatives. Time and time again in disasters, whether in our own backyard or globally, it is the most marginalized and poor populations who have the least amount of resources to cope and who end up hit the hardest.