Disaster by Choice
Oxford University Press,
Ilan (Professor of Disasters and Health,
University College London,
and Professor II,
University of Agder) Kelman
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An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas.
We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through
these 'natural disasters'. Science recounts a different story,
however: disasters are not the consequence of natural causes, they
are the consequence of human choices and decisions.We put ourselves
in harm's way, we fail to take measures which we know would prevent
disasters, no matter what the environment does. This can be both
hard to accept, and hard to unravel. A complex of factors shape
disasters.They arise from the political processes dictating where
and what we build, and from social circumstances which create and
perpetuate poverty and discrimination. They develop from the social
preference to blame nature for the damage wrought, when in fact
events such as earthquakes and storms are entirely commonplace
environmental processes. We feel the need to fight natural forces,
to reclaim what weassume is ours, and to protect ourselves from
what we perceive to be wrath from outside our communities.This
attitude distracts us from the real causes of disasters: humanity's
decisions, as societies and as individuals. It stops us accepting
the real solutions to disasters: making better decisions. This book
explores stories of some of our worst disasters to show how we can
and should act to stop people dying when nature unleashes its
energies.The disaster is not the tornado, the volcanic eruption, or
climate change, but the deaths and injuries, the loss of
irreplaceable property, and the lack and even denial of support to
affected people, so that a short-term interruption becomes a
long-term recovery nightmare. But we can combat this, as Kelman
shows, describing inspiring examples ofeffective human action that
limits damage, such as managing flooding in Toronto and villages in
Bangladesh, or wildfires in Colorado. Throughout, his message is
clear: there is no such thing as a natural disaster.The disaster
lies in our inability to deal with the environment and with
ourselves.
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University of Agder) Kelman
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Ilan (Professor of Disasters and Health,
University College London,
and Professor II,
University of Agder) Kelman
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