![]() Why, then, haven’t you heard about it? Well, one reason is that it killed no more than 128 people no, class, that’s not 128, 000, which just a few decades ago would have been a horrific but not unimaginable figure for this monsoon-rich region. ![]() Amphan was the strongest cyclone ever recorded and the most expensive storm to hit an already pretty poor region, struggling in the aftermath of the pandemic. ![]() Narrowly speaking, our hypothetical hurricane is not a natural disaster, despite its unprecedented force.Ī real-world version of this happened last year as Super Cyclone Amphan made landfall in Bangladesh and northeastern India, which I wrote about at. In Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, Ferguson asks a central question that us sensible environmentalists ponder from time to time: if a record hurricane is unleashed on a barren and uninhabited island – is it still a natural disaster?Įven the most out-and-out environmentalist is forced to answer ‘no.’ Perhaps, goes a qualification, the next one might hit South Florida and so be a preview of terrible futures to come. It doesn’t feel like it, partly because the pages are Bible-thin and the prose is mostly in Ferguson’s engaging and pacy style. Professor Niall Ferguson, the celebrated British historian and now Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, has written a long and dense book. ![]()
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