REDUCING ECONOMIC LOSS OF
DISASTERS:
Economic losses from disasters in
low and middle-income countries are undermining efforts to achieve the
Sustainable Development Goals and deprive governments of funds to spend on
health, education, social protection and other important public needs.
The world has had an enormous
physiographic diversity and vast areal expanse though being devastated by the
hostility and predatory by natives on the environment. The world has a fairly
identical story on the unfriendliness to environment. When combined, such
geographical variability with constant anthropogenic interference, people of
any country get vulnerable to human made and natural hazards. Though
Susceptibility to and Vulnerability from disasters differs from one community
to another as is subject to the different levels of climatic wars and terrain.
The destiny of disasters is an eternal one and so
should be our battle. The climate change question has a cruel answer to the
next generations; therefore, environmental friendliness in line with disaster
mitigation is a great fortune in the parcel of next generation's inheritance. If a disaster has not happened in our generation,
then we are naturally discounting it for the next generations.
There are either deliberate or unintentional
initiatives on making all the people in the world self-reliant before any kind of
calamity hits them and emphasizing on dissemination of the threat.
Reducing the economic loss of
natural disasters draws attention to the seven targets of the Sendai Framework
for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, which was adopted as a global plan to
reduce disaster losses by UN Member States. “Sendai Seven” based on the seven motives
of Sendai convention. Sendai seven campaign initiates to foster implementation of
the framework for the reduction of disaster risk with the objective of reducing
disaster losses, saving lives and enhancing the disaster risk management.
Sendai convention is a 15 year, non-binding
and volunteer framework from 2015 to 2030 which outlines seven most urgent targets
of all the organisations working worldwide to reduce natural calamities.
Reducing the economic loss of
natural disasters emphasizes understanding disaster risk, investing in the risk
resilience, in fortification of disaster risk governance to manage the risk of disasters
and modifying the ways of preparedness.
Climate change, one of the
leading causes of natural disasters, is manifest in the shrinking global forest
cover with at least 30.7 million hectares lost globally. Nations are making
efforts by putting up agencies in the form of Environment Management Authorities
among others though fulfillment of their mandate is still wanting.
The world is held abreast of the
negligence of people about climate change and depletion of nature's endowment.
Man is intolerantly becoming predator to an environment that he owes a
membership.
Disasters are to nature as carbon
is to steel. We cannot totally avoid disasters as long as we are living in the
lap of nature and we have no total way out in this regard. Since we need to
live in a natural environment, we need to be much more inquisitive on the
imminent disasters, be it man made or natural. An appropriate disaster
management is amongst the most crucial tasks left for the mankind. If we successfully
chalk out an ideal scientific management plan, then it would be possible to
reduce the impact of disaster which the mankind is confronted with and is the
cry of the current day. Disaster is not in the habit of informing about its
visits: rather we should be a habit of
visiting it in order to stop its coming.
Furthermore, we should improve detection
and tracking technologies which would give humanity time enough to hatch a defense
plan. The problem lies in the way humans assess risks with a tough grappling of
consequences of events that we haven't experienced. Emergency responses following
disastrous occurrence are also necessary which involves building international
and national alert systems for regular surveillance and subsequent resettlement.
Trials should be conducted to test technologies that would aid in disaster herding
and propulsion, onboard artificial intelligence and monitoring systems.
Some disasters such as asteroids,
typhoons et cetera have a distinction of a sci-fi talk especially in Africa. Be
it fiction or function, they will definitely happen. If history is the predictor's
tool, the danger of a disaster once or twice in decade is a dire possibility.
Disaster is not a mere talk of war nuclear bombs since disaster can wipe a
people of a nation even in times of no conflict and no quest for territory.
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Revolutionary greetings comrade. Much as am in abstract agreement with you on the article, overtime with exposure to non conventional literature, i have observed that what mainstream media and contemporary intellectuals call "income inequality" as espoused in many write ups is a cleverly and systematically albeit dubiously crafted product of an economic system (not capitalism this time) that is designed to "take take take, grab grab grab" as Tupac described Trump's exploitative wealth building model in 1995.
ReplyDeleteThe non binding agreements mentioned therein prove the school of thought that i subscribe to (they never work) especially if a select group of nations that have acquired the economic stage of mass production galvanize themselves independent of the original body such as the G7 .Its the biggest scam in human history.A group of predators can never discuss with prey how to conserve the jungle..Ase!!!!
Mugisha Emanzi
I like the incites herein. The take x3 mantra that the world's top sings
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