My name is Doug Copp. I am the rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American rescue team International (ARTI), the world \ \ \ 's most experienced rescue team.
Seeing this, it struck me that the deep mental scars and psychological effects that result from any large disaster can be just as devastating as the physical destruction.
On April 20, 2010, a deadly explosion at the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform started a catastrophic oil leak into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
As AIDS spreads to the whole world, AIDS which is the most devastating diseases in today's world that everyone fears, has been sweeping across our country.
Toyota's woes were compounded on February 9th when it said it would also recall 440,000 hybrid vehicles, including the celebrated Prius, to fix a problem with their brakes.
That's the gloomy consensus: Africa, beset by conflict, hunger and disease, is being hit by a new disaster that combines them all - though Africa produces just 2% of global emissions.
Yet occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.