ABSTRACT
‘I often compare the situation of living in the United States, to being in the eye of the storm’, writes architect Sergio Palleroni, noted for his work to provide shelter to the poorest of people in impoverished nations. ‘When you are standing in the eye of the storm, everything seems calm. But as you step away... you realize the storm you’re creating is changing the rest of the world dramatically’ 1 . Many who read this book probably live, like me, in the eye of the storm Palleroni talks about. We read of the political, economic and environmental storms engulfing billions of people and other species across 70the planet, but it is easy to lull ourselves into thinking that we can forever remain in the eye and that we will never be buffeted by the human-generated winds and waves that have left so many people barely surviving. But storms move and their eyes break apart, and we will all eventually be affected in various ways by the economic hurricanes and typhoons swirling around us.
