Q1. What is one specific example of the difference between a disaster and an emergency, and what is it about these events that leads to the difference that you reference?
Q2. What is the Clean Air Act, and how effective has it been?
Q3. Why did no one say anything about the deception and dangers occurring in the Upper Big Branch Mine prior to the disaster? What program was designed to partly combat this, and how might it help in similar circumstances?
Q4. What would you say to someone who criticizes the United States for spending so much of the federal budget on foreign aid for disasters?
Q5. Why do you think more than half of the 260,000 deaths due to the 2010-2012 famines in Somalia were children under the age of five?