Natural Disasters


Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
The Children's Blizzard
The Johnstown Flood
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Zeitoun
The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado
Vera Nazarian
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Simon  Mundy
In the year before Joanna’s protest at its Manila office, Shell paid out more money to its shareholders than any other company in the world: $20 billion, comfortably beating second-placed Apple. Its chief executive Ben van Beurden earned over $62,000 a day. Such fantastic rewards were possible only because the full costs of Shell’s products were being shouldered by others, who would continue to bear them − along with people yet unborn − far into the future.
Simon Mundy, Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

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