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August 23rd, 2005; Hurricane Katrina, formed over the Bahamas, hitting landfall in Florida. By the 29th, on its third landfall it hit and devastated the city of New Orleans, becoming the deadliest hurricane of the 2005 season and, one of the five worst hurricanes to hit land in the history of the United States. Taking a look at the years leading to Katrina, preventative actions, racial and class inequalities and government, all of this could have been prevented. As presented in the newspaper article, An Autopsy of Katrina: Four Storms, Not Just One , we must ask ourselves, are â€Å"natural† disasters really natural or, are they a product of the people, who failed to take the necessary actions that needed to be taken? The Years Leading To†¦show more content†¦Due to the fact that, their government invests a lot of its’ monetary funds into the prevention of these disasters. Average annual deaths due to hurricanes range from 0.5 (million) in New Zealand to more than 7400 in Bangladesh.(course pack) Looking at some of the richest countries in the world and some of the underprivileged ones, we are able to compare their preventative actions with the United States. Comparing Japan, one of the four wealthiest countries in the world, and Bangladesh; one of the world’s impoverished countries. Both Japan and Bangladesh have about the same size population, 126 million and 135 million respectively, making you believe that both would have about the same average hurricane related deaths. However, this is not the case. Japan averages 39 hurricane related deaths, while, in contrast, Bangladesh experiences more than 7400. The reason for this being is, Japan takes more action to ensuring that deaths like those of Bangladesh’s do not occur. 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