It also brought damages to infrastructure and agriculture that reached P4.2 billion (according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council or NDRRMC). Unfortunately, Project NOAH was taken out of NDRRMC in mid-2017 before the 6 recent disasters happened. Are all these national disasters natural or man-made? Dr. Lagmay, in his scientific report titled, Lessons from Disasters in the Philippines, wrote: “There’s no such thing as a natural disaster because all disasters are caused by human error. All disasters are man-made; they are never natural.

Source: Philippine Star January 13, 2019 16:00 UTC