But floods and drought have merely compounded a man-made disaster brought on by decades of Stalinism.
That, and answer for the tragic man-made disaster to the citizens of the Gulf and the world.
Conflict in the Middle East is a man-made disaster that has the potential to take a turn to the dark side with lasting consequences.
Thus a disruption in component and end product supply due to a natural or man-made disaster may spread much further than the area of initial damage.
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Then, the new shares, like water pressing down on a fault line, will cause the earth to shake, driving down the market in a man-made disaster.
And historically there was the additional fear that the precious store of knowledge accumulating as the world grew in wisdom might be lost by natural or man-made disaster.
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The BP Oil Spill was unique in that it was a man-made disaster, played out in slow motion over months and televised from the bottom of the sea.
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Many people are malnourished and some have died from famine-related illnesses in the past three years, as drought and floods have added natural calamity to the man-made disaster of mismanaged farming.
Despite its inherent illogic, the notion that last week's massive, cascading electrical blackout was a "wake-up" call seems now to have become as much a part of the political landscape as has the effort to assign blame for this costly man-made disaster.
"The drought isn't a natural disaster but a man-made calamity, " writes Zheng Fengtian of Remin University.
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Unlike cyclones and earthquakes, the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Darfur was man-made, so Kapila and Egeland began a crusade to get Darfur onto the U.N.
"It has been proven in a court of law that the drowning of New Orleans was not a natural disaster, but a preventable man-made travesty, " the attorneys said in a statement.
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