Catastrophe in the Making The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow / by William R. Freudenburg, Robert Gramling, Shirley Laska, Kai T. Erikson.
When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to “natural disasters” or “acts of God.” But what if they’re neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves? That’s the provocative theory of...
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