What should be the government's responsibility in times of natural disasters?

Answer 1

The Government's Responsibility?Though it seems like citizens want the government to protect them from everything, there is no way a government can protect them from natural disasters. Earthquakes, tornados, landslides, floods, hurricanes, blizzards, etc. happen. If the disaster is bad, the government usually steps in and helps, but it is certainly not their responsibility to protect us from something they have no control over.

It is the government's responsibility to protect their nation.

Answer 2

Absolutely not,natural disasters wave occurred many times throughout natural history,the asteroid that hit the Yukatin penesulla and wiped out the dinosaurs,and other natural disasters that have caused mass extinctions.

Answer 3

Although people do not cause natural disasters by themselves, a good case can be made that political leaders tasked with the emergency response to natural disasters could certainly be held responsible for the extent of the disaster's effects.

Thus, when the Bush Administration willfully ignored the recommendations of the Army Corps of Engineers that New Orleans' levees be made higher and stronger, and when George Bush himself appointed a flunky to run FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency, charged with the federal response to natural disasters) whose only "experience" was in running dog shows, the level of gross incompetence was such that Bush can be blamed and held responsible for the subsequent catastrophe after Hurricane Katrina.

Answer 4

Natural disasters are natural events, such as floods, earthquakes, landslides and that sort of thing which happen all the time. At the current time, there is no way to prevent a natural disaster from happening.

If the flood sweeps over the land and destroys houses, people call it a disaster because their homes are gone and they are now homeless and upset and must find a solution. Living conditions worsen abruptly; if bad enough people will die.

If the same flood covers an area without houses, pulling down the trees and causing large scale erosion in a place where no one lives, its a natural event but not a disaster that government needs to respond to.

The best government can do is to identify places where a landslide or flooding or earthquakes and so on are likely to happen. The land regulations are designed to keep people out of the way of these events.

When the natural world changes, its events change also, such as the recent sea level rise from ice melting. The new events are not expected to happen so they come as a surprise, often deadly.

People have to decide if they are willing to move away from areas where the natural events which can be disasters are likely to happen. Or they can continue as they are and be subject to these events.

Government can help with relocation and regulations only if people vote for representatives who will create bills and vote them into law.

Bottom line- government can ban the use of areas or require special conditions or building for people who live in a high risk area. Mother Nature runs her own events without regard to governments.

Answer 5

If government has the means to protect, even partially protect, its citizens against disasters for which its citizens cannot adequately protect themselves then the government has the resposibility to do so.

Answer 6

No, we cannot prevent natural disasters from happening. We can only run from it. However, we can stop it from happening so frequently by being Eco friendly and stop global warming.

Answer 7

No. Humans actually make them a lot less severe because we have ways to help, and our sophisticated weather prediction capabilities can help people avoid being hurt by the storm.

Answer 8

Goverment cannot prevent natural disasters but provide emergency plans