Audio It happened unexpectedly. The whole city was afraid. No one could see. Many could not breathe. And amid the terror of London's Great Smog of 1952, a different, equally sinister drama was underway. The London Smog killed an estimated 12,000 people. It lasted less than one week. But those who died from the smog were not the only victims in those dark days. Kate Winkler Dawson's book, Death in the Air , tells parallel stories of the Great Smog. Both left victims struggling to breathe. Reading List: Kate Winkler Dawson's Author Page Death in the Air on Amazon Fred Burton's Beirut Rules Related Reading on the Environmental Costs of Rapid Development from Stratfor Worldview: The Energy Paradox: Cheap Versus Clean Why More Global Corporations Are Betting on Renewables The Price of India's Economic Development Subscribe to the Stratfor Podcast iTunes - Google Play - Stitcher - SoundCloud - YouTube...