When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to `natural disasters' or `acts of God'. But what if they're neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves? That is the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognise Hurricane Katrina not as a `perfect storm', but a tragedy of our own making - and one that could become commonplace.