SUMMARY - The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make The Rich Richer And The Poor Even Poorer By John C. Mutter
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As you read this summary, you will learn that one of the consequences of natural disasters is to make the rich even richer and the poor even poorer.
You will also learn that :
- the Burmese military junta used Cyclone Nargis to consolidate its power;
- most of the victims of Hurricane Katrina were black, poor and elderly;
- new Orleans is the second most unequal city in the United States;
- we often overreact emotionally to natural disasters;
- the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince almost entirely spared the wealthy neighborhoods;
- social sciences are crucial to understanding and putting into perspective the consequences of natural disasters.
The author of "Disasters Profiteers", John C. Mutter, is a seismologist and professor at Columbia University in New York. He therefore speaks with full knowledge of the facts when he talks about natural disasters. In his book, he discusses the social consequences of natural disasters. He studies how cyclones, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis and other earthquakes contribute to deepening inequalities, allowing a small fraction of the population, whom he calls "profiteers", to take advantage of these calamities to consolidate their power and wealth. A healthy work, which makes us look at natural disasters in an entirely new light.
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