Acts of God —— The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America

----- 天灾：美国自然灾害的非自然历史

ISBN: 9780198032533 出版年：2000 页码：319 Steinberg, Ted Oxford University Press

In this eye-opening volumn, eminent environmental historian Ted Steinberg explains how much of the death and destruction caused by "natural" disasters has been well within the realm of human control. Steinberg exposes the fallacy of seeings such calamities as simply random events, showing how the decisions of business leaders and government officials have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property, especially among America's poor, elderly, and minorities. Seeing nature or God as the primary culprit, Steinberge argues, has helped to hide the fact that some Americans are better protected from the violence of nature than their counterparts lower down the socioeconomic ladder.