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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: On the nature of man and disaster. | Available online http ccforum.eom content 10 1 105 Editorial On the nature of man and disaster Mike Darwin Independent Critical Care Consultant Ash Fork Arizona USA Corresponding author Mike Darwin editorial@ccforum.com Published 14 December 2005 This article is online at http ccforum.com content 10 1 105 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2006 10 105 doi 10.1186 cc3937 Abstract Unique among animals humans survive not by superb physical adaptation to our environment but rather by intelligent large-scale adaptation of the environment to our needs. We build houses with climate control systems that mimic the environment of sub-Saharan Africa. We safely live in environments where the temperature never rises above freezing and where the level of the sea is higher than the land we farm and build vast cities upon. We live in tropical rainforests teeming with hostile organisms and atop arid life-poor mountains and plains at elevations in excess of 5000 m. As this editorial is written a few of us live in space circling the earth in an environment of hard vacuum searing heat and cryogenic cold. The sole endowment for our survival that evolution has bestowed upon us is reason and technologic civilization which is its product. All human habitations and all life on earth for that matter are under continuous threat of some kind. Violent weather earthquakes volcanic eruptions and even meteorite impacts represent threats of varying degrees of risk. There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Introduction Human response to risk can be either proactive or reactive. Proactive measures include avoiding known risks by not settling in or venturing into hazardous environments and mitigating them by constructing dams levees and other .