THE AGE OF CATASTROPHE WITH JOHN DAVID EBERT
Ebert's fifth book is about how disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, he says, a catastrophe of one sort or another seems always to be unfolding somewhere on the planet. The book insists that we have entered into a veritable Age of Catastrophes which have grown both larger and more complex and now routinely very widespread in scope. The old days of the geographically isolated industrial accidents, of the sinking of a Titanic or the explosion of a Hindenburg, together with their isolated causes and limited effects, are over. Now, disasters on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill or the Japan tsunami and nuclear reactor accident, threaten to unhinge the very order of civilization itself.
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