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The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters

Robert Muir-Wood

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Description:We can’t stop natural disasters, but we can stop them from being disastrous. One of the world’s foremost risk experts tells us how.Year after year, floods sweep cities clean, earthquakes tear apart communities, and tornadoes uproot towns. Disasters bring with them rampage and despair. But does it have to be this way? In The Cure for Catastrophe, Robert Muir-Wood makes the controversial claim that our natural disasters are in fact human ones: we keep building in the wrong places and in the wrong way, putting brick buildings in the way of earthquakes, wood ones in the way of fire, and cities in the paths of tropical storms. We refuse to evacuate, blindly trusting our flood walls and disaster preparations, until they fail, making catastrophes even more deadly.From the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 to Hurricane Katrina, the story of natural disasters is less about a hostile environment than about human foolishness, denial, and greed. But there is hope, if humans cause catastrophes, we can also prevent them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters. To get started finding The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: We can’t stop natural disasters, but we can stop them from being disastrous. One of the world’s foremost risk experts tells us how.Year after year, floods sweep cities clean, earthquakes tear apart communities, and tornadoes uproot towns. Disasters bring with them rampage and despair. But does it have to be this way? In The Cure for Catastrophe, Robert Muir-Wood makes the controversial claim that our natural disasters are in fact human ones: we keep building in the wrong places and in the wrong way, putting brick buildings in the way of earthquakes, wood ones in the way of fire, and cities in the paths of tropical storms. We refuse to evacuate, blindly trusting our flood walls and disaster preparations, until they fail, making catastrophes even more deadly.From the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 to Hurricane Katrina, the story of natural disasters is less about a hostile environment than about human foolishness, denial, and greed. But there is hope, if humans cause catastrophes, we can also prevent them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters. To get started finding The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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