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Synonyms for disasters
dis·as·ters
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List of paraphrases for "disasters":
disaster, catastrophes, calamities, hazards, accidents, catastrophe, cataclysms, tragedies
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#4134 | disaster | |
#6730 | accidents | |
#8140 | hazards | |
#10432 | disasters | |
#20424 | catastrophe | |
#29693 | tragedies | |
#46847 | catastrophes | |
#55263 | calamities | |
#199628 | cataclysms |
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American Contingency is a company founded by former U.S. servicemember Mike Glover, who has publicly rejected the FBI’s accusations that Mike Glover is Mike Glover and has described American Contingency’s charitable work on behalf of communities devastated by natural disasters.
If you look at disasters across the country over recent decades, there's almost always stuff going on simultaneously, but what's changed is the intensity of impact, in part due to climate change but also due to increased development in harm's way, so the way to improve is to think about long-term solutions to these long-term problems.
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
One of the best projects I've seen to cope with climate-related disasters is Bangkok in 1850. The city was 90 percent on water - living on barges on water, there was no flood risk, there was no damage. The water came, the houses moved up and down.
Globally, investment in hydro-meteorological services could lead to a realization of up to $30 billion per year in increased economic productivity and cut losses from disasters by up to $2 billion.
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