| Human Caused Disasters |
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| Written by Devan Hemmings |
| Wednesday, 23 December 2009 23:48 |
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Disasters caused by humans include aviation (flying) accidents, arson (lighting a fire to burn something), CBRNs (where a country has a powerful weapon), civil disorder (where people riot or do crimes), power outages (where electricity is interrupted), public relations crises where a company must tell bad news, radiation contamination (where nuclear weapons are used or accidentally get out of control), disasters in space, a telecommunications outage (not being able to communicate), terrorism (where a group attacks civilians or says they will attack to gain something), and war (fighting with weapons between large groups)cyclones . Topics
-Inflation and scarcity of resources -Food famine
-Invasion
-Terrorism
-Gas attack
-Bombs
-Plain crashes
-Train crashes
-Car crashes
-Biological attacks
-Mobs competing for resources
-Pandemics
-Lack of medical supplies
-Hazardous waste
-Polluted water and air
-Radiation
-Nuclear fallout-where to go-what to do-how to prepare
-Tyranny and violent corruption
-Riots
-Mind control
Surviving Human Caused Disaster
-barricading your home
-staying under the radar
-hiding
-teamwork
-getting what you need beforehand
-getting what you need after the fact
-keeping a healthy immune system.
-quarantining your home from the outside world. Gas masks etc.
-making a splint
-bandaging a wound
-treating a sick patient
-wilderness first aid
-how to overthrow a corrupt government
-how to resist. Strength in numbers
-If a riot breaks out no more rules apply.
Living through a disaster To live through a disaster, it is important that your family and your city prepare in advance. This may be making a pack of things you need in an emergency, it may be a government sending soldiers to help, or it may be something in between. |
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