Matt Redhawk and My Patriot Supply’s Calamity List
- mattredhawkmps
- Mar 14, 2016
- 2 min read
We live in a day and age when the world is so connected. “Volcanic eruption in a land far off disrupts airline travel, which in turn affects food transport, which eventually affects stock markets halfway around the world”, says Matt Redhawk of My Patriot Supply. It is no longer possible to view disasters as localized realities far off from us. While most disasters tend to affect small areas, the contagion effect goes much further than the epicentre of the problem. There are a few disasters that we should see more off in the coming decades. Tsunamis. The images from the 2004 disaster in Banda Aceh in the Sumatran Island cannot be easily forgotten. Undersea earthquakes send massive waves spiralling towards shorelines thousands of miles away. The fact that it claimed victims as far as the East African coast and Madagascar paints a rather scary picture. Volcanoes. Mt. St. Helens, Pinatubo and Chiragongo and other lava explosions have served to affect the world in ways that were unanticipated a few decades ago. With a single explosion, they destroyed towns, interrupted airline traffic, altered the environment and released tons of fumes and dust into the air. Nuclear Disasters. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 2007 nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, Japan are some of the world’s most damaging nuclear disasters. The impacts are still felt today. If that’s not bad enough, they are expected to continue affecting the world for decades to come. Disease Epidemics. The progress in research, science and medical technology have not entirely wiped contagious diseases from the world. Zika virus, Ebola, HIV/AIDS and a host of other viral diseases continue to flare up in certain periods, wreaking havoc on entire populations. Matt Redhawk and My Patriot Supply have the tools, techniques and supplies to help you handle some of these catastrophes at fair and competitive prices.
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