a. Scientific advancements have led to the ability to detect some hazardous events before they occur, allowing society to plan for them, mitigating their damage.
Scientific advancements helped reduce the impact of hazardous events on society in various ways. As science progress and study hazardous events, it is possible to be able to predict some of them, this allows society to be prepared, at least in theory, and with the knowledge comes the ability to mitigate them, and avoid suffering, economic costs and even loss of lives to the people that are unluckily involved in those types of events.
