What Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Disasters Teach Us
What Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Disasters Teach Us
Abstract
Michel Bruneau’s new book, The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It (Prometheus, 474 pages) He writes poignantly of the contradictions of a technologically advanced civilization with building codes that aim for life preservation but not the property resilience needed to prosper after a catastrophe. The blessings of disasters are harsh lessons that show much, I’m afraid. The blessing of disasters that showMuch, I'm afraid, about our own capacity for folly. For example, the blessings of catastrophels that show very little, he says.
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