Does nature play disaster games?

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Why do disasters happen? We often assume that it is humanity versus the environment that creates or averts natural disasters. After all, we are frequently told, nature bats last in this survival game. Science disagrees.

We are not really embroiled in a never-ending fight-to-the-death with nature. When a pandemic upends our lives, the fundamental reasons for why we see deaths and disruption are similar to a hurricane flooding New Orleans and an earthquake toppling buildings in Nepal.

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