What Can We Learn From Disasters?

What Can We Learn From Disasters?

Disasters are terrible and cause death, destruction and injuries. But from disaster, we can also learn new ways to prevent future disasters from happening. For example, in a natural disaster, many homes, and people, are destroyed. Say the disaster is a flood. Maybe the sandbags that someone put around their house failed and let in water, therefore flooding their house, and neighbours. That would be a tragedy, however, through that disaster, we could observe what failed in the sandbags. Were they not full enough? Not strong enough? Is sand not as absorbent as we thought? By observing what went wrong, we can improve the particular invention, so that in the future more disasters don’t happen. Also, some areas need disasters to flourish. In a forest fire, the tallest, most regal trees are burned down. This is bad because these trees could take centuries to grow back. However, with the larger trees gone, the smaller plants on the forest floor have more access to light, and can grow better.