The Disaster Profiteers

Released on by John C. Mutter
preview-18

  • The Disaster Profiteers Book Detail

  • Author : John C. Mutter
  • Release Date : 2015-08-11
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 290
  • ISBN 13 : 1466879416
  • File Size : 27,27 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Disaster Profiteers by John C. Mutter PDF Summary

Book Description: Natural disasters don't matter for the reasons we think they do. They generally don't kill a huge number of people. Most years more people kill themselves than are killed by Nature's tantrums. And using standard measures like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) it is difficult to show that disasters significantly interrupt the economy. It's what happens after the disasters that really matters-when the media has lost interest and the last volunteer has handed out a final blanket, and people are left to repair their lives. What happens is a stark expression of how unjustly unequal our world has become. The elite make out well-whether they belong to an open market capitalist democracy or a closed authoritarian socialist state. In Myanmar-a country ruled by a xenophobic military junta-the generals and their cronies declared areas where rice farms were destroyed by Cyclone Nargis as blighted and simply took the land. In New Orleans the city was re-shaped and gentrified post Katrina, making it almost impossible for many of its poorest, mostly black citizens to return. In The Disaster Profiteers, John Mutter argues that when no one is looking, disasters become a means by which the elite prosper at the expense of the poor. As the specter of increasingly frequent and destructive natural disasters looms in our future, this book will ignite an essential conversation about what we can do now to create a safer, more just world for us all.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Disaster Profiteers books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Disaster Profiteers

The Disaster Profiteers

File Size : 11,11 MB
Total View : 3259 Views
DOWNLOAD

Natural disasters don't matter for the reasons we think they do. They generally don't kill a huge number of people. Most years more people kill themselves than

Climate Change Science

Climate Change Science

File Size : 90,90 MB
Total View : 980 Views
DOWNLOAD

How will future climates be different from today’s world—and what consequences will changes in climate have for societies and their development strategies?