Content tagged with “disasters”

“This is kind of a weird book, because the title makes you feel like it’s going to be a minute-by-minute discussion of the chemical disaster in Bhopal. But, it’s a 400-page book, and you don’t get to the disaster until about page 290. Seriously. It starts with a discussion of insects and pesticides,…”

“This is the almost-definitive history of Hurricane Katrina. I say ‘almost,’ because it was written about a year after the 2005 hurricane, which means there’s probably some history since then that’s been missed. This is 700 pages of misery, basically. New Orleans didn’t stand a chance under the best…”