Natural disaster

In modern times, the divide between natural, man-made and man-accelerated disasters is quite difficult to draw.[4][5][6] Human choices and activities like architecture,[7] fire,[8][9] resource management[9][10] or even climate change[11] potentially play a role in causing "natural disasters". In fact, the term "natural disaster" has been called a misnomer already in 1976.[12] A disaster is a result of a natural or man-made hazard impacting a vulnerable community. It is the combination of the hazard along with exposure of a vulnerable society that results in a disaster.

Natural disasters can be aggravated by inadequate building norms, marginalization of people, inequities, overexploitation of resources, extreme urban sprawl and climate change.[4] The rapid growth of the world's population and its increased concentration often in hazardous environments has escalated both the frequency and severity of disasters. With the tropical climate and unstable landforms, coupled with deforestation, unplanned growth proliferation, non-engineered constructions make the disaster-prone areas more vulnerable. Developing countries suffer more or less chronically from natural disasters due to ineffective communication combined with insufficient budgetary allocation for disaster prevention and management.[13]

An adverse event will not rise to the level of a disaster if it occurs in an area without vulnerable population.[14][15] In a vulnerable area, however, such as Nepal during the 2015 earthquake, an adverse event can have disastrous consequences and leave lasting damage, which can take years to repair. The disastrous consequences also affect the mental health of affected communities, often leading to post-traumatic symptoms. These increased emotional experiences can be supported through collective processing, leading to resilience and increased community engagement.[16]

You can edit this font by changing the subsitution rules below. There are suggested characters, but you can also edit the rules manually by clicking the input or output character. There's a save button below the rules so you can save your font with a unique URL. Have fun!

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The order of the rules is important. For example, if your first rule was a ➡ @, and your second rule was @ ➡ A, then all the "a" characters would end up being translated to "A". This is because the input text is passed through your rules, one-by-one. You should think of your rules like a step-by-step "recipe" for how to transform the input text into the output text.

You can translate whole words too! For example, if you create a rule like lizard ➡ 🦎🦎🦎 then all instances of "lizard" in the input box will be translated into 3 lizard emojis.

You can use a tool like Shape Catcher to find fancy characters that have a particular shape by sketching the desired shape.

Advanced: If you're feeling ambitious, you can use "regular expressions" (i.e. "regex" rules) to create more complex translation rules than simple substitutions. Here are some examples of regex rules that you can use:

If a word starts with "m", replace the word with "moo": /\b(m[^\s]+)/g ➡ moo
Repeat all the input characters 3 times: /(.)/g ➡ $1$1$1
Add "-moo" to the end of all words: /\b([^\s]+)/g ➡ $1-moo
Repeat the final letter of all words: /\b([^\s]+)([^\s])/g ➡ $1$2$2
Replace all new lines (enter/return) with underscores: /\n/g ➡ _
Replace "cat" with "dog" no matter the capitalisation of "cat": /cat/gi ➡ dog

Unlimited Power: Regular expressions are actually somewhat limited in their ability to transform text. For those that want to take things to the extreme, click the "Settings" button and use the custom transformation function to create transformations of unlimited complexity. You can use ChatGPT (or similar) to help you write the transformations.

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