Men stood for hours on end in waterlogged trenches, unable to remove socks or boots. Soldiers feet would soon start to numb and the skin would turn red or blue. If untreated, the foot usually needed amputation, due to gangrene. A lot of disease in World War 1 was spread by rats. Another disease soldiers caught during World War 1 is dysentery.
The ships captain had a drinking problem and on the night of the incident he was unfit to be in charge of the tanker and so left an unqualified crewmember in control. This inexperienced crewmember wouldn’t have collided with Bligh Reef if the ships RAYCAS radar had not been broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster. The incorrect crewmember being in charge of the tanker (the third mate instead of Captain Joseph Hazelwood) and broken equipment played a huge role in the collision. Environmental Impacts Marine creatures were affected greatly by the spill as the toxic oil disrupted the food chain; the oil massively destroyed plankton numbers as it prevented sunlight from getting through the water (Plankton need to sunlight to grow, reproduce and ultimately end up as food for fish). Recent scientific studies have found that the fish developed gross deformities such as extra fins, or suffered from retarded development.
It was the major destruction in Europe over the decades. It injured 14 people and a fireman who was fighting hard over the blaze. They were soon treated in a nearby hospital. The damage done by the fire to the chemical factory could not be restored. It polluted the whole river as the chemicals flowed down the river Rhine.
There were no drains, sewers, rubbish disposal or filtered water supply and it made it worse how crowded the city was because of all the people that lived there. Waste was collected in dung heaps, people were walking and washing things in sewage and even getting their drinking water from it, which caused them to get ill. However people didn’t realise how bad this actually was for their health because of their poor medical knowledge so they carried on doing it. Governments had a ‘laissez faire’ attitude, which meant they didn’t want to interfere in other peoples’ lives. They wanted to intervene as little as possible so they left it alone.
As seen on figure 7, the Rocky Mountains are high lying, therefore prone to snow and glacial ice, because of climate change; this will heat up and melt, this will then cause a massive avalanche and cause harm to the villages and towns surrounding it and possibly the skiers/snowboarders on the slopes. In a summery season, the Rocky Mountains will have a lot of landslides; because this mountain is ‘rocky’ it will then cause mass destruction of rocks falling down the mountain damaging the villages and towns. The Pacific coastline has a high potential to landslides, this is due to erosion, and the rocks will start to erode way from the sea withering the rock, and then
This led to a heated battle for a reform. People were concerned that the slaughterhouse could change the morals of the workers after they observed what was going on in the slaughterhouse. A man that was interviewed said “The violence against animals educate the men in the practice of violence and cruelty, so that they seem to have no restraint on the use of it,” (Philo 1998,65). So the slaughterhouse was closed and they began building slaughterhouses outside of the city. “Today, the slaughterhouse is cursed and quarantined like a boat carrying cholera.
The settlers quickly hunted and killed off all the large and smaller game that was to be found on the tiny peninsula. The low, marshy area was infested with malaria-carrying mosquitoes and other airborne pests. The only source of water for the area was not a good source of drinking water for more reasons than one; mainly because of the high content of salt and the bugs that were infested within it. The settlers who came over on the initial three ships were not well-equipped for the life they found in Jamestown. There were a little over one hundred men to come over that helped establish Jamestown.
Not only did the volcano eruption killed people but also the spread of Cholera (A type of infectious disease) made people sick, it was spread due to the lack of sanitation in the areas that people fled to. The economic impacts of a volcano eruption on LEDCs are mainly the effects on money and jobs; after the volcano eruption, business owners would have lost their assets, people would have lost their jobs, which also means loss of incomes for the country when the
Effects: In the short term, many people experienced coughing, vomiting, severe eye irritation and the feeling of suffocation. Children and shorter people inhaled more of the toxic gases. As people ran to flee the city, many people were trampled in the panic and chaos. Long term effects included blindness, respiratory problems, immune and neurological problems, infertility, birth defects, cardiac failure and lung injuries. Causes: Before the accident, Bhopal and the surrounding area’s had been affected by drought, and so famers had less produce to sell, and less of a profit to buy the pesticide ‘Sevin’ being produced at the Bhopal factory.
| The amount of bodies out on the street caused a lot of diseases to spread, diseases like, cholera. They became a big problem. | Many hospitals and schools were destroyed/badly damaged along with the airport control tower. | They had trouble getting aid into the area because the airport was shut. And the situation had poor management.