The argument that man-made disasters are more terrible than natural disasters

Definition: Natural disasters generally refer to disasters caused by nature, and man-made disasters are the harm caused by people's subjective consciousness and behavior.

Man-made disasters are more terrible than natural disasters, even though natural disasters may cause greater losses than man-made disasters. The reason is that man-made disasters can be avoided. Because it can be avoided and cannot be avoided, it is particularly unbearable;

Natural meteorological disasters such as wind, rain and lightning are undoubtedly natural disasters. But for those who can resist wind and rain, natural disasters are not terrible. The most terrible thing is the man-made disaster under the cover of natural disasters. Natural disasters are often predictable, and man-made disasters are difficult to find at ordinary times. It is often natural disasters that cover up man-made disasters, and man-made disasters are exposed through natural disasters, and the loss is heartbreaking.

Natural disasters are a big exposure of man-made disasters and a practical test of officials' sense of responsibility. Through the floods in Ning 'an Shalan, Heilongjiang, the lightning strikes of primary school students in Kaixian, Chongqing, and the floods in Sichuan, there is a shocking "man-made disaster" behind these seemingly natural disasters: the catastrophic disaster in Ning 'an Shalan Primary School in Heilongjiang claimed 1 17 lives, including 105 students. The root cause of this historical tragedy is the serious dereliction of duty of the party secretary and police captain in Shalan Town, and their failure to organize rescue work in time. In addition, because Shalan Town is located in the basin, the school had planned to build a two-story classroom or move the school to a higher position, but it was said that it was postponed because the relevant departments intercepted funds, which is undoubtedly a typical man-made disaster. Yihe Town, Kaixian County, Chongqing is a lightning-prone area in history. After on-site investigation and analysis by lightning protection experts, Xingye Village Primary School is located at the exposed commanding heights. In the northwest of the accident classroom, there are three big elms with a distance of more than 10 meters, which become natural lightning traps and increase the risk of lightning strikes in the classroom. Looking at the photos of the lightning strike scene is shocking, not only because of the tragic result of the incident, but also because there are hundreds of students in such a simple classroom, but the classroom in the minefield has not installed any lightning protection devices! After calculation, the school invested less than 1000 yuan to install a simple lightning protection device, which may avoid this disaster, but this is only a hypothesis! /kloc-what do you mean by 0/000 yuan there? The simplicity of students' classroom is enough to make people speak for themselves.

Tsunami: The first thing to ask is, why didn't the South Asian countries that suffered the most have any early warning? Tsunamis can actually be called seismic waves. Because the tsunami triggered by the earthquake must have happened after the earthquake, and it will take some time to spread. Even if these waves move very fast, it usually takes an hour to travel hundreds of kilometers (kilometers). The speed of this tsunami is 800 kilometers (kilometers) per hour, and it takes two hours to reach Sri Lanka from the epicenter. So as long as it's not too close to the source, you can have time to escape. Due to the frequent threat of tsunami, Japan pays special attention to the study of tsunami. There is a strict early warning mechanism. It is generally believed that if Japan is hit by a tsunami this time, the casualties will be greatly reduced. With today's technology, although the occurrence of an earthquake cannot be accurately predicted, it can be detected once it happens, and the occurrence of a tsunami can also be detected. Regrettably, in the Indian Ocean region, as pointed out in the article of the Financial Times on the 27th, this disaster highlights the lack of early warning system in the Indian Ocean. The tsunami caused by insufficient early warning is not so much a natural disaster as a man-made disaster.

Secondly, most countries seriously affected by the tsunami are high-risk areas for secession, piracy and terrorist activities, and successive years of man-made disasters have also weakened their economic strength. Even people's food is a problem, how can we talk about taking out money to warn the tsunami disaster? Even after the disaster, it is difficult for these countries to come up with enough funds to solve the disaster. In Aceh, the worst-hit region in Indonesia, separatist activities are still rampant. The "civil emergency" implemented by the Indonesian government in the local area has not been lifted due to the earthquake disaster, which may affect the rescue work. As the separatist activities in southern Thailand intensified, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's repressive measures in the past year triggered a rebound, and this disaster will make the hot potato in his hand even more hot. In Sri Lanka, the separatist "Tiger" organization has been fighting government forces all the year round. As mentioned above, the government and society of the affected countries will undoubtedly face man-made disasters that are more difficult to deal with than natural disasters.

Thirdly, in the era of economic globalization, developed countries have not brought information resources benefits to developing countries while fully enjoying the benefits of cheap labor in developing countries. As far as the whole international community is concerned, developed countries have invested far more resources and capabilities in disaster prevention and mitigation than developing countries, but they have never been able to form effective and equal information sharing and resource sharing under the framework of the United Nations, which is also an important factor in the intensification of this disaster. Because there is no tsunami warning mechanism or tide gauge to remind the affected people in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other places; In other words, if developed countries can help these countries to have a tsunami early warning mechanism in advance, and developed countries can warn these countries at the first time when the earthquake occurs, the losses caused by this tsunami disaster may be much lower than now.

Fourth, in the face of the out-of-control social order after the disaster, robberies occurred in some areas, which undoubtedly made the people in the disaster areas worse. According to People's Daily Online 65438+ 10, a few days after the Indian Ocean tsunami hit Indonesia, many refugees in Aceh province fled their homes for fear of a plague. A number of victims currently living in Lili Hospital, the capital of North Sumatra province, said that looting in Aceh is becoming more and more serious, especially China people have become the main targets of looting, and the price of air tickets flying out of Aceh province has been rising, which has made the victims miserable. It is reported that robbery has also occurred in other countries with severe tsunami disasters in South Asia.

Man-made disasters are more terrible than natural disasters because:

1 foresees that nature is presented to human beings without reservation, and human beings can study it completely. According to related reports, the accuracy of human prediction of natural disasters is above 80%, while man-made disasters are different. People will hide the facts to facilitate their own man-made disasters. With the passage of time, our understanding of nature will continue to deepen, and man-made disasters will become more and more secretive and ingenious. Therefore, man-made disasters are even more unpredictable.

2 destructive. The shadow of the two world wars is still hard to shake off. Can the other debater find out which natural disaster caused more losses than World War II? At the same time, when natural disasters begin, people can play their own subjective initiative. Take timely measures to reduce losses before the end of natural disasters, while man-made disasters are not. If the war is a life-and-death contest, defeating and destroying each other may be the best way to save yourself. How can you have the leisure to take measures to remedy it before the end? Another example is a car accident. We can only sigh the fragility of life and watch it die instantly. The losses caused by man-made disasters are getting worse and worse, because it is difficult to make up. It seems that all the endings have been doomed from the beginning, why not be more terrible?

3 insist. There will always be no sequelae after natural disasters. Before and after the end, it can be said that the boundaries are clear, and people only need to rebuild after the disaster. Otherwise, man-made disasters are often difficult to calm down for a long time. The ancient people's crazy felling of forestry in the Loess Plateau is still hurting us. At that time, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, destroying two cities. Now the city has been rebuilt long ago, but deformed children are still born. After enduring the torture of the war, the local people had to face the pain of their loved ones and suffered another psychological blow. The horror of man-made disasters is beyond words. After all, comets only exist in movies. To sum up, man-made disasters are more difficult to predict, more destructive, harder to make up immediately, and more tragic. Their destructive power is more continuous in time and space. Therefore, I take the liberty of asking another debater to shout with us, man-made disasters are fiercer than tigers, and man-made disasters are more terrible than natural disasters!

According to Marxist philosophy, natural conditions and population factors are not decisive forces for social development, but productive forces. Productivity is the decisive force that determines social development. Natural disasters can only be regarded as natural forces. Can only play a role in promoting or delaying. Man-made disasters are people-centered, so man-made disasters can change history. . Emphasizing natural disasters is to deny the basic principles of Marxism, which is a challenge to Marxism. Challenges to all socialist countries and producers. Excuse me, your opponent, can you bear the consequences?

History has proved that the disappearance of ancient Babylon and Loulan is not a natural feedback caused by human wanton destruction of the natural environment. The demands of war and transition exceed the carrying capacity of nature. It will inevitably lead to revenge from nature. Please tell me this is not a man-made disaster. Two of the four ancient civilizations have disappeared in the long river of history, which means that the loss to our whole humanity is immeasurable? In ancient China, there was an example. How much damage did Qin Shihuang cause by burning books and burying Confucianism? The breeze can't read, why turn over the books? How much damage did the literary inquisition cause in Ming and Qing Dynasties? Which dynasty was bought without bloodshed? How many years did the Cultural Revolution set China's economy back? Isn't this a man-made disaster? There is also the example of Ma Jiajue. Did he bring me something as simple as killing a few people? The incidence of school shootings in the United States is increasing year by year. What does this mean? Aren't these terrible? Will your opponent please answer? As a student, you live on campus, and there are always shootings around you. Will you live in peace? Is this caused by natural disasters? Did Ma Jiajue kill because of the bad weather or was struck by lightning?

6. The melting of Antarctic glaciers will flood coastal and island countries. Is this a natural disaster or a man-made disaster? Isn't it because of the global warming and the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet that the atmospheric environment is destroyed by the population expansion? Do we have to blame our fault on the earth where we live? Is this what we call singing the humanity of the new era? Or is this what we call post-80s humanity? Will we run away? Should we run away?

Isn't it terrible that terrorists are running around the world? From March 20th, 2003 to March 9th, 2005, 24,865 Iraqi civilians died in the war. Among the dead, 82% were adult males and 9% were adult females. One tenth of the dead were under the age of 18. Yes, this is only one-tenth of the casualties of the Tangshan earthquake, but do we just judge his terrible degree from the data? Imagine that 82% of adult men in a country are dead. What does this mean? Can a country become an independent country when there are only some old people and women left?

In response to the government's "sending doctors and medicines to the countryside" activity, the medical staff of the "going to the countryside team" in Fengkou Town, honghu city City, Hubei Province even resorted to deception to diagnose healthy villagers as "schistosomiasis patients" and treat them as doctors without illness, thus making illegal profits. (According to Chutian Metropolis Daily 65438+reported on February 7)

On April 28th, 2008, at 4: 4 am1,the Jingqing T 195 train derailed between Zhoucun and Wangcun of Ji Jiao Railway and collided with the No.5034 train from Yantai to Xuzhou. The accident has killed 7 1 person and injured more than 400 people. It is preliminarily determined that the T 195 bus was speeding, and the dispatching command was chaotic, which was not directly conveyed to the driver. The station attendant didn't give the driver an order to go slow.

On the evening of February 5, 2007, the program about the Karamay Friendship Hall 13 years ago broadcast by the "Depth" column of Oriental TV made our hearts suffer unbearable biting and boiling again. I watched this program with tears in my eyes. The ugliness and ruthlessness of the human soul is the real culprit that devours these 325 lives. Please pay attention to such a detail. At that time, the leaders sitting in the front row were closest to the fire and farthest from the only open security door, but it was puzzling and intolerable that they were the ones who could escape, while many children near the door were buried in the fire. It was confirmed that the children instinctively wanted to escape at that time, and a woman shouted "Don't move, son, let the leader go first". So the children stopped there obediently and gave the opportunity of this life to those leaders. Shameless! Shameless! For heaven's sake, we should have heard "Don't mess around and let the children go first" in that scene! Please pay attention to another detail: when people counted the bodies afterwards, they found that many children were not killed by fire or choking on smoke, but were trampled to death alive. Their small bodies are covered with the footprints of adult men's big leather shoes and the blood holes left by adult women's high heels ... It is hard to imagine that those who trample on these young bodies will be those who love to show off their love for their children and are affectionately called "uncles and aunts" by children. In the face of disaster, the deepest and meanest side of these people's souls is completely exposed. They have completely become a group of animals without brains and human feelings. They are just a set of human bodies.

According to the Bavarian Law on Nature Protection promulgated by 1973, the tasks of German national parks are: nature protection, scientific research, environmental education, and providing entertainment without conflict with nature protection. A rare wind disaster occurred in 1990, causing serious damage to 1 10,000 hectares of virgin forest. The cumulative amount of trees blown down by the wind reaches 1, 2 1 000 cubic meters, and about 98% of fallen trees are distributed in the core area of the reserve. The practice in Changbai Mountain is just the opposite. With the approval of the leading department, all fallen trees were sawn into wood and transported out of the reserve. Then clean up the forest land and prepare to plant artificial forests. In addition to the huge economic benefits of the nearby forestry bureau, the reserve has also made a "windfall". In the shed virgin forest, the highway has been inserted into the hinterland, the car has been driving for four years, and the remaining wood to be transported is still neatly piled up there. The next step is to "clean up" and "prepare for planting artificial forests" and replace natural succession with artificial renewal. On September 20th, 1988, China Environmental News published: "Man-made disasters under the cover of natural disasters; A large number of loggers cleaned up' fallen trees', which seriously damaged Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve. "After the storm, not only did all the fallen trees move away, but even the trees that were not blown down suffered; Moreover, hunters, ginseng diggers, mushroom pickers and pine nuts also took advantage of it, turning it into a man-made disaster much more serious than the wind disaster.

1October 26th 165438+8: 49, the day after the Jiangxi earthquake,1October 27th165438+2140, an explosion occurred in Dongfeng Coal Mine of Qitaihe Branch of Heilongjiang Long Mei Group. It is reported that on the afternoon of1October 29th 165438+65438. Man-made disasters, because there are thousands of kinds of people's hearts, hundreds of millions of people in the world have many different ideas or more, because the psychology of living things is not single ... As far as the definition of what people are more afraid of is unpredictable, there are several kinds of natural disasters, but people's hearts are unpredictable ... Natural disasters kill many people, so they are terrible? Does that natural disaster have the same potential as human thinking? There is no guarantee that human inventions will be afraid of natural disasters on that day, especially in the hands of bad people ... Since this year (65438+1October 1- 165438+20051October 20th), there has been a death/kloc in * *. An accident with more than 30 deaths 12, with 795 deaths. These safety accidents include industrial and mining enterprises, coal mining enterprises, fire accidents, road traffic, water traffic and other industries. Only in June 5438+065438+ 10, unsafe accidents and public crises occurred one after another, including the explosion of PetroChina Jihua Company, the Harbin water crisis, the explosion of Chongqing chemical plant threatening water sources, and the Jiangxi-Hubei earthquake crisis. However, these security incidents and public crises have the nature of * * *: almost without exception, they are full of man-made disasters.

"China's annual casualties caused by natural disasters, accidents and social security incidents exceed one million, and economic losses are as high as 650 billion yuan, accounting for 6% of China's GDP. In 2005, due to the explosion of PetroChina Jihua Company, the water crisis in Harbin and the earthquake in Jiangxi and Hubei, the losses will be even greater. Sunjiawan mine disaster in Fuxin, Liaoning Province is a man-made disaster-overloaded production and improper operation; The explosion of PetroChina Jihua Company is a man-made disaster-improper operation; Harbin water crisis is a man-made disaster-artificially discharging "poison"; There are man-made disasters in the Jiangxi-Hubei earthquake-"Caution" in prediction. Faced with the iron law that "several accidents are not man-made disasters", during the period from 1900 to 1960, the population of the United States increased by17 million on average (every ten years), but during the period from 1930 to 1940, However, from 1930 to 1933, a serious economic crisis broke out in the United States, which led to famine and widespread malnutrition in various parts of the United States and caused a large number of abnormal deaths. The most conservative estimate is that at least 4 to 8 million people will starve to death. But in this case, President Hoover still told reporters: "No one in America is really hungry. Take those vagrants for example. They eat better than before. There is a tramp in new york who eats ten meals a day. "