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 Natural Disaster Impacts



For the last decade, in the US alone, $67 billion on average has been spent to clean up natural disasters each year. That is not even mentioning the massive quantity of habitat damage. The bird population near the center of the disaster is estimated to have decreased 70% (Toups, 2005). Human deaths exceeded 1,800 (Randall, 2008). Hurricane Katrina was the most costly disaster in United States history. Katrina alone cost $81 billion for recovery ("Global," 2007). The above photograph demonstrates the damage to homes and the surrounding habitat due to flooding (Phillip, 2005).

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