The floor of the emptied room is
covered in dried mud. This photo is about the emptiness a person
feels when he or she loses everything. The cracks are in a way also the mental
scars left by Katrina...
But can we do something to avoid damaging the environment? Not much, because the electronic objects we use upsets the earth's fragile balance.
Hurricane Katrina was a
natural disaster that occured over a week from August 23 to August 30
in 2005. Winds reached 280km an hour. It formed over the Bahamas and
crossed southern Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, southeast Louisiana and
Mississippi, Alabama, Cuba and almost all the east coast of the
United States. The hurricane caused almost two thousand deaths. It
caused beach erosion, local marshes were overrun by water, and it
affected the habitats of animals and also caused oil spills.
Reconstruction was costly
because infrastructures and forest lands were completely destroyed.
Some insurance companies stopped insuring homeowners so people moved
to other States. Looting in search of food and water was widespread
and there were even some murders, thefts and rapes.
Are we
all responsible to some degree for this disaster? Yes,
we are, everyone of us, because
of our constructions, of our new high tech products, of our
industries, the environment is being damaged. Using the car is one
of the worst things, and the United States is by far the worst
culprit. Climate change is due to all of us and it explains the
violence of Katrina.
But can we do something to avoid damaging the environment? Not much, because the electronic objects we use upsets the earth's fragile balance.
If the
effects of the hurricane were so devastating it is also because
people did not build strong enough houses and because the evacuation
plans were not edequate. Maybe too some of the cities that were
destroyed were situated too near to a river.
We consider that all our
modern conveniences are essential. Disasters like Katrina are the
price to pay for progress...
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