Take the facts of natural disasters. It turns out that they are not always even natural. Even that basic fact is not a fact. Instead, many things that are called natural are a product of social forces. And many natural occurring phenomenon are considered a part of social environment.
Many natural disasters are in good part the product of social conditions .
El Nino storms are in good part the product of global warming which in turn results from the increase in greenhouse gases that come from the excessively high levels of CO 2 going into the air that in turn comes from our factories and especially automobiles. We socially construct social forces as natural disaster, just as we socially construct natural events as social problems. MADD , as Craig Reinarman, pointed out, was successful, in demedicalizing drinking and driving. Yet, maybe a medicalization of this problem would be more appropriate in many cases. Or how about taking into account how work and family life are organized in society today and how our dependence on the automobile is almost a non-choice.