When A Natural Disaster Is Caused By Humans?

I completely disagree with the statement. Before I begin my argument, I will define some important key terms and set the yardstick (How to determine when a natural disaster is caused by humans?). The key terms that need to be defined are “natural causes”, “human causes”, “hazards” and “disasters”. A natural cause is a cause that is completely uninfluenced by humans and a human cause is a cause that has been influenced by human actions. A hazard is a threat with the potential to cause loss of life, injury, property damage, socio-economic disruption or environmental degradation and a disaster is a hazard that causes wide-scale destruction with loss of lives, severe property damage and major socio-economic disruption and environmental degradation. In this essay, when human actions influence change in the environment which causes the disaster, we say that the natural disaster is caused by humans.

Natural disasters can be caused by humans. One big factor that affects disasters is global warming. According to NASA (Source: The Carbon Cycle, retrieved from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CarbonCycle/?src=features-fromthearchives), humans have been releasing lots
For example, if people decided to live near an active volcano without any knowledge of how to mitigate the damage of its eruption, the eruption could be considered a disaster if it destroys houses and kills people. However, if there were no one living there or if they knew what to do to minimise the damage, the eruption could not have met the criteria to classify the eruption as a disaster and would have just been a hazard. A real life example would be the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster. In summary, the flawed nuclear power plant, coupled with inexperienced personnel who did not know that the test they put it through could cause it to be explosive. Therefore, the disaster can be attributed to human