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By John David Ebert

mess ups, either common and man-made, are at the upward push. certainly, a disaster of 1 style or one other turns out continually to be unfolding someplace on the earth. we've entered right into a veritable Age of Catastrophes that have grown either better and extra complicated and now many times very frequent in scope. The previous days of the geographically remoted commercial injuries, of the sinking of a Titanic or the explosion of a Hindenburg, including their remoted explanations and constrained results, are over. Now, failures at the scale of storm Katrina, the BP oil spill or the Japan tsunami and nuclear reactor coincidence, threaten to engulf huge swaths of civilization.
This ebook analyzes the efforts of Westerners to maintain the catastrophes outside, whereas protecting order at the inside of society. those efforts are breaking down. Nature and Civilization became so intertwined they could not be separated. typical mess ups, furthermore, have gotten more and more tough to tell apart from “man-made.”
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