An environmental disaster is a disaster to the natural environment due to human activity, which distinguishes it from the concept of a natural disaster.
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“The disaster ... is not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect—this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they’re not critical to a culture’s existence.”
—Twyla Tharp (b. 1941)