GG231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ozone Depletion, Intuit
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Social/technological processes human induced disaster can be considered as accidental, human error or acts of aggression. A socio technical hazard can be a single toxic chemical to an entire industry such as nuclear power human involvement varies, these would be health related issues from exposure to chemical pollutants. Hybrid disasters are those such as floods or earth quakes that release oil, chemical or radiological material. Local and global military actions, genocide and more. War has been directly responsible for the loss of some 120 million lives over the past 100 years, majority of them are civilians. More than 150 wars since 1945 with over 100 deaths at each continued. Controlled by industrial and transportation technologies such as car crashes. Consumer and waste products such as drugs global or multiple extreme hazards. Wide spread and long term, nuclear war. Cumulative effects such as pesticides titanic or rare catastrophes. Singular loss (plane or coal mine collapse)
