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Acts of God - The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
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This study examines the causal essence of calamity, peeling back the
layers of obfuscation to find out not so much what but who is most often responsible for the destruction caused by tornadoes and other natural disasters. In undertaking such a venture, I run the risk of perpetuating a sharp division between nature (the what) and culture (the who).Of course, no such simple dichotomy exists in this Gordian-knot world of ours. Andin any case, trying to disentangle the natural from the cultural is not mymain concern here. Instead, I’m more interested in how drawing a distinction between us and it and blaming the latter "nature" for calamity has become a tool used to advance various political interests in society.In other words, the consequences of viewing these disastrous events as largely the work of natural or divine forces will be my main concern. My argument is not simply that natural disasters bear a strong human component, but that those in power (politicians; federal, state, and city policymakers; and cor- porate leaders) have tended to view these events as purely natural in an effort to justify a set of responses that has proved both environmentally unsound, and socially, if not morally, bankrupt.Type: pdf Pages: 318 Author: Ted Steinberg Publisher: Oxford University Press Date: 2000(Extracts to 1.84 mb) Download (1.55 mb): Password: warforce.info Fast mirror:
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