Disaster by Choice
How Our Actions Turn Natural Hazards Into Catastrophes
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Rupert Bush
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Ilan 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 we assume 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 audiobook 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 of effective human action that limits damage, such as managing flooding in Toronto and villages in Bangladesh, or wildfire 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.
©2020 Ilan Kelman (P)2020 W. F. Howes LtdLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- De Jana en 04-24-20
De: Thom Hartmann, y otros
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia
- A Final Warning
- De: James Lovelock
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, British scientist James Lovelock predicts global warming will lead to a Hot Epoch. Lovelock is best known for formulating the controversial Gaia theory in the 1970s, with Ruth Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, which states that organisms interact with and regulate Earth's surface and atmosphere. We ignore this interaction at our peril.
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A New Perspective - A Must Listen - Very Moving
- De Thomas en 01-29-12
De: James Lovelock
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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
- De: Alex Epstein
- Narrado por: Alex Epstein
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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For decades environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better. How can this be? The explanation is that we usually hear only one side of the story. We're taught to think only of the negatives of fossil fuels, their risks and side effects, but not their positives.
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A different point of view
- De Ballofyarn en 01-12-17
De: Alex Epstein
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Climate Change
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- De: Joseph Romm
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National Geographic's Years of Living Dangerously series and one of Rolling Stone's "100 people who are changing America," Climate Change offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding what climatologist Lonnie Thompson has deemed "a clear and present danger to civilization."
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Religious not scientific claims and preachings
- De Jeanne Renzo en 09-19-19
De: Joseph Romm
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The Great Warming
- Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- De: Brian Fagan
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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The history of the Great Warming of a half millennium ago suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives todayand our vulnerability to drought, writes Fagan, is the silent elephant in the room.
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Good book but unpracticed, disjointed narration.
- De Paul en 09-12-10
De: Brian Fagan
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Coal
- A Human History
- De: Barbara Freese
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history. Yet the mundane mineral that built our global economy, and even today powers our electrical plants, has also caused death, disease, and environmental destruction. In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins three hundred million years ago and spans the globe.
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Uses Coal to push her Political Agenda
- De Kismet en 08-22-06
De: Barbara Freese
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The Well-Tempered City
- What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
- De: Jonathan F. P. Rose
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity - and the home of 80 percent of the world's population by 2050. As the 21st century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality, mass migrations, and education and health disparities, among many others.
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The best way to save the future is to look at the past
- De Kate en 10-01-22
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Fossil Future
- Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less
- De: Alex Epstein
- Narrado por: Alex Epstein
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world’s poorest people. And contrary to what we hear from media “experts” about today’s “renewable revolution” and “climate emergency,” reality has proven Epstein right.
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Strongly Recommend
- De Kevin en 06-14-22
De: Alex Epstein
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The Nature of Nature
- Why We Need the Wild
- De: Enric Sala
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense.
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Amazing
- De Lars Pardo en 11-21-24
De: Enric Sala
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The Ocean of Life
- The Fate of Man and the Sea
- De: Callum Roberts
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts - one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists - leads listeners on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on Earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.
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MUST READ!
- De E en 11-28-17
De: Callum Roberts
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 27 h y 1 m
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In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted.
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Jared Diamond Downs You in Explanation
- De Rob en 07-20-18
De: Jared Diamond
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Dark Winter
- How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell
- De: John L. Casey
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. Casey's research into the Sun's activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in discovery of a solar cycle that is now reversing from its global warming phase to that of dangerous global cooling for the next 30 years or more. This new cold climate will dramatically impact the world's citizens.
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Global Warming Is A Hoax
- De Catamount en 11-20-17
De: John L. Casey
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A Furious Sky
- The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes and puts us in the middle of the most devastating storms of the past, none worse than the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed at least 6,000 people, the highest toll of any natural disaster in American history.
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Good start but went political at the end.
- De thebreeze en 03-24-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Disaster by Choice
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- Reed Martin
- 07-21-24
Very thought-provoking.
A good primer on the topic. Informative, insightful, and timely, especially given global warming and climate change’s impact on the world’s glaciers and ice sheets.
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- Iuliia
- 01-05-22
The best nonfiction book I read last year
An excellent book by the expert, a leading scientist working at the top UK university. The author has managed to explain very complicated concepts in simple words, using a lot of examples. If you are tempted to read Bill Gates' book, read this one instead! The narrator is exceptional, very easy to follow.
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