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Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
Maybe someday
46
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
74/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Samantha Montano
Publisher:
Park Row
Date:
August 3, 2021
A disaster researcher brings readers with her on a personal journey through some of our worst disasters, parsing what happened from a emergency-management perspective and warning of the stark social consequences of failure to implement aggressive, immediate action to prepare for future climate-change-induced catastrophe.
What The Reviewers Say
Montano is an expert on the intersectionality of disasters, climate change and media. But the power of this debut book lies not so much in her mastery of statistics or research as in her eloquent, passionately personal narrative.
Montano debuts with a compelling account of her career.
It’s hardly news that the Covid-19 pandemic was handled poorly, but Montano contributes more disheartening details. Most books on disaster end with hope, but the author will have none of it. She exhorts readers to take action but doesn’t claim to see light at the end of the tunnel. Painful but essential reading..
... a trenchant if uneven look at communities that are fighting for survival in the face of climate change.
