When Disasters Come HomeIn the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West. But today they are coming home with a vengeance. From global warming to migration crises, from assaults on democracy to Covid 19 and the fall out of war in Ukraine the West is in the grip of multiple, overlapping crises that keep its populations in a state of perpetual fear and distraction. Disasters should be awakening us to the