Doom the politics of catastrophe

Ferguson, Niall.

Doom the politics of catastrophe - New York Penguin Press 2021 - xiii,472p.;25cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?

978-0241488447


COVID-19 (Disease)--History.

362.196 FER