An Intimate Look at Some of the Recent Global Natural Weather Disasters

Stan Cox and Paul Cox describe the destructive force of nature in the context of climate change. The reader of How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe’s Path, From the Caribbean to Siberia (New Press, 2016) must be agile. The book demands that one navigate between several modes of consciousness in order to face the reality of human input into the “weather on steroids” that is routine these days. How the World Breaks takes us on a long tour, but not one launched with