Wicked Weather - professor Alexander Gates

Looks at the most significant natural disasters in Earth’s history and considers whether we can prevent them from happening again. Natural disasters occur on a regular basis throughout the world with severe events occurring every few years or less. However, some natural disasters are so severe that they change human history—or at least contribute to changing it—by striking key locations and/or at key times to cause such drastic changes. Each disaster type impacts human settlements in different ways and can be local, affecting small countries or areas, or global, affecting the world. These disasters destabilized populations, the governments of provinces and countries, and drastically impact populations and the priorities of a nation in response to a natural disaster. In other words, they changed history. In Wicked Weather, Alexander Gates explores these notable environmental disasters and their impacts, raising the question: What can we do to prevent this from happening again? After an introduction on why certain disasters occur most often in specific areas, Gates covers history’s most impactful volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons, tornadoes, droughts, floods, and tsunamis. Each chapter investigates significant cases of each environmental disaster that shifted power in a region, caused wars, toppled governments, or changed policies and the way people approached life in these parts of the world. Gates also examines the fie
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