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Disasters in the Society of Fear

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From immemorial times, Aborigines and ancient cultures were frightened of disasters because these events were seen as divine reprisals or punishment for their sins (as the Noah’s Ark myth shows). Although modern science introduced instrumental thinking to understand disasters, improving the quality of life, it is equally true that capitalism obscured the diagnosis of scientists to protect the system. Blind to see the real problems of earth, today, capitalism offers distorted answers to the problem of climate change, migration and refugee crises, and even to the economic downturn. Based on the tactics of blaming Others, the elite allude to poverty as the precondition toward humanitarian disasters.

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Korstanje, M.E. (2019). Disasters in the Society of Fear. In: Terrorism, Technology and Apocalyptic Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13385-6_7

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