The Guardian’s reporting on the Spanish floods highlights how “natural disasters” are now, rightly, seen as climate disasters (Editorial, 1 November). As Dr Ilan Kelman describes in Disaster by Choice, the uncomfortable truth is that the majority of “natural disasters” are created or exacerbated by human choices.
In order to better prepare for such challenges, we need young people to become knowledgeable about, and positively engaged with, how the human and physical worlds interact – work that starts in the geography classroom.
