The term ‘natural’ usually helps to make things sound benign (‘natural flavourings’ in food), but the phrase ‘natural disaster’ ascribes all the blame for the devastation caused by an earthquake, volcano or hurricane to the inscrutable and irresistible force of Nature — even though human decisions both before and after the event often make things much worse, as with Hurricane Katrina.
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