The Disaster Tourist
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Disaster lay dormant in every corner, like depression.
New Orleans made her think about the remaining traces of Hurricane Katrina. In New Zealand, it was the earthquake that had shaken the city of Christchurch into rubble. Near Chernobyl, the ghost towns that emerged after the region was exposed to radiation, along with the Red Forest created by the fallout. In Brazil, the favelas, and in Sri Lanka, Japan and Phuket—like in Jinhae—the damage wreaked by tsunamis.
To control the public’s emotions, you just had to reveal how much the victims’ lives were devastated; in the best cases, those ruined lives induced empathy.
Disasters didn’t distinguish between the dry season and the wet season, but things like precipitation, temperature and humidity mattered to the disaster tourist.
When preparing a disaster programme, you had to take pains to ensure that no matter how you divided up the trip, each part of it would still induce empathy and sorrow.