Advances in technology + Natural disaster

Advances in technology
Technology is a broad concept that deals with a people’s usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects man’s ability to control and adapt to its environment. In the last two centuries, humanity has witnessed great technological developments that are not to be paralleled with any other past times in history.
To begin with, technological advances have helped people use tools and materials that made life easier for them. To give one example, the use of the phone and the internet has made it extremely possible to communicate with any person on any other part of the world. Spatially speaking, people managed to set their foot on the moon and discover things that were in the past only myths for many of us.


For all these reasons, I believe that one has to look at the other side of the coin and believe that technological development is double-edged. To conclude, and as far as I am concerned, technological advances are a major step in the development of nations and societies and it is imperative to make good use of those developments and make it accessible to all individuals in the world.


The advantages and disadvantages of technology
In fact, technology has changed the way we live and communicate, but at the same time it is the reason behind many problems and phenomena in our daily life. Mankind is grateful for technology’s benefits in different domains. For example, with internet people can get information easily, sending résumés to companies and booking rooms in hotels In addition, technology has helped doctors to find cures to some chronic diseases.
Despite its advantages, people’s health is getting worse and worse because of the fumes of factories and the smoke of cars and buses. The most dangerous inventions are rockets and bombs which kill innocent people and destroy everything. Moreover, workers are replaced by machines in companies which increase the number of joblessness in many countries.
It all comes down to saying that people must be aware of the use of technology, since this latter aims at improving people’s life not killing creatures.


Natural disaster
A is the consequence of when a potential natural hazard becomes a physical event (e.g. volcanic eruption, earthquake, and landslide) and this interacts with human activities.


Human vulnerability, caused by the lack of planning, lack of appropriate emergency management or the event being unexpected, leads to financial, structural, and human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster , their resilience.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation : " disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability".[2] A natural hazard will hence never result in a natural disaster in areas without vulnerability, e.g. . Strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas. The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement.