Lucy Jones She is a renowned seismologist who has worked with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), so she knows a lot about disasters. That's why he wrote Disasters: How Catastrophes Shape History.
A book where it narrates, chapter by chapter, some of the great catastrophes that have devastated the Earth and what they have revealed about the human condition.
Gross changes
Each of these catastrophes changed the functioning of the society that lived in its range of action. Due to the greater density and complexity of our cities, the risk is also increasing: More people than ever are at risk of losing the infrastructure that makes life possible.
Disasters: How great catastrophes shape our history (Essay)
The disasters covered by Jones range from the fire and brimstone rain of Pompeii in AD 79 to the Tohoku Island earthquake in Japan in 2011.
Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, and volcanoes come from the same forces that give life to our planet. Earthquakes give us natural springs; Volcanoes produce fertile soils. Only when these forces exceed our ability to resist them do they become disasters. Together they have shaped our cities and their architecture; they have raised leaders and overthrown governments; They have influenced the way we think, feel, fight, unite or pray. The history of natural disasters is our own history.
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Books that inspire us: 'Disasters: How Catastrophes Shape History', by Lucy Jones
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