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Why Do People Live in Disaster Prone Areas of the Earth?

Article Category: Advice

Author Name: Boruch Fishman

In the wake of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a number of Internet bloggers have sought to explain why people continue to live in natural disaster areas. About 20-25% of the world's population live in natural disaster areas although not all places prone to natural disasters are3 populated. This would suggest that people are not naturally attracted to high risk areas, but some of these places have qualities that make them attractive dwelling areas.

Bloggers have described three types of factors that attract people to disaster areas. First, the land itself is attractive. Soil and work conditions close to danger spots frequently provide good livelihoods between disasters. Fishing and soil conditions close to the sea line provide abundant work. Soil conditions close to volcanoes are often very fertile due to the breakdown of lava over the centuries. Secondly, once a family has moved to a natural disaster area they become locked into their dwelling choice because of a series of social factors. People tend to live where their family lived. Often the land rises to significance of ancestral holdings. Once they have developed a life and a community they are hesitant to leave. Family life is important and the new generation may be hesitant to leave because they want to take care of their parents. Thirdly, social factors are bolstered by economic incentives for staying in a danger area. A work skill, such as packing fresh fish, may be passed along from generation to generation and the younger generation hasn't sufficient education to learn a new skill. There simply may not be enough money to move. Once a householder is locked into supporting the family, moving may be out of the question. IN some cases, people in the area may be earning a good living from an occupation tied to the area, such as tourism.

Above and beyond the basic factors playing on people's minds are a series of thought processes, which bloggers have repeatedly described as forms of risk assessment. In general, the advantages of continuing to live in a disaster prone area outweigh the risks that a disaster might strike. People perceive their risk as small. After all, only a portion of the Japanese coast was struck by the 9.1 tsunami in 2011. For dwellers in other areas, life goes on as before. Most people believe that the disaster won't strike in their generation, and if it does, it will be lessened by new technology designed to protect the safety of residents. The belief that disaster won't strike is strengthened by the infrequency of major natural disasters in any one area.

Great Sun, author of the Viking release "Super Life Secret Codes," adds an additional factor to those mentioned in the blogs. Great Sun points out that much of modern humanity is estranged from nature and the Universe. The very factors involved in decisions to stay in a disaster prone area, liked to professional gambling, estrange man from nature. Disaster areas become populated by busy people so involved in the day to day race to make a living and have a life that they have little time to listen to nature. After all, it has been proven that animals in a tsunami will run from the beach. However, mankind's own ability to sense natural disaster becomes dulled by his participation in the rat race.

The solution, according to Great Sun, is not merely higher walls or more aid to disaster areas, rather, man needs to reconnect to the Universe and start listening

Keywords: Solutions, Disaster, Earth, Earthquake, Japan, Live, Tsunami

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