SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Buffalo Creek Flood, Kai T. Erikson
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Everything in its path: destruction of community in the buffalo creek flood by kai t. erikson: the buffalo creek disaster. Coal extraction produces a lot of sludge (dirty water: because you can extract low-grade coal from mud, rock, sand. The process already creates sludge a great deal of water is used to clean coal as well. That"s a lot of dirty water, what do you do with it. So they created dams and the sludge accumulated behind the dams. The winter of 1972 was very rainy and the dam collapsed. The miners and their families lived mostly downstream of the dam. The sludge carried away everything (homes, etc. : kai erikson"s involvement. Erikson came in here (the lawyers hired by families needed evidence of damage to the community) Documents everything and writes a book after. The notion of community: a network of relationships of people who look out for each other. All sorts of signs of apathy, depression.
