Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis—A Memoir and Expert Analysis of Our World's Growing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters

by Samantha Montano

The consequences of climate change—often disasters—are used as the basis for the argument that we must act to stem emissions. Pictures and video of devastating disasters and disaster survivors are used to justify climate action, but then those same people brush aside discussions of how emergency management needs to change. The climate conversation has to this point rarely included, or even acknowledged, the actual needs of the people who were affected by the very disasters they purport to be concerned about. It feels like a vestige of the old idea that climate change is just a future problem, rather than a problem for us now.