Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)

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‘The farewell calls from the planes… the mounting terror of air traffic control… the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish… From an author who’s spent 5 years reconstructing its horror, never has the story been told with such devastating, human force’ Daily Mail

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The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.

Galveston, Texas, 8 September 1900. It’s another fine day in the Gulf according to Isaac Cline, chief observer of the new US Weather Bureau, but one day later, 6-10,000 people were dead, wiped out by the biggest storm the coast of America had ever witnessed.

The story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart boat race – the most dramatic in yacht racing history