Global problems in the world natural disasters

BACKGROUND:
Natural disasters have traditionally been viewed as acts of the gods. The term 'Acts of God' continues to be used in certain forms of legislation. The new thinking prefers to see natural disasters as a combination of nature, technology and, especially, poverty. Famine may be triggered by drought but its roots are most often elsewhere. War often stems from a conflict of resources and in turn has severe environmental side effect; apart from devastating countries, it pauperizes people, leaving them vulnerable to natural upsets which they would ordinarily cope with. Farmers forced by government action to cultivate marginal land are unable to respond to extremes of weather, people who have come dependent on aid will die if the distribution system fails. In short, natural disasters rarely kill the rich; Their force is exacerbated by social forces. A third way of interpreting natural disasters is in terms of sociological vulnerability. High energy disasters, like earthquakes, volcanoes and floods, are actually decreasing in the total proportion of disasters. What are increasing are the low energy, slow impact ones like drought and soil erosion and the collapse of physical systems. Once these go so follow the social systems. Using this line of thinking, disasters really only happen to marginal people. In a self-sustaining negative circle, marginal people destroy their environment, which can then support fewer people. This produces an effective rise in population, which then destroys the land resources even more.