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

came to understand the terms build back better, windows of opportunity, and blank slates as the language of disaster capitalists. These phrases are meant to manipulate. They are a palatable articulation of disaster capitalism created from the co-opted hope of disaster survivors. It is rhetoric used to persuade the public of neoliberal agendas.