Blessings of Disaster : The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our ...

The Blessings of DisasterThe Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It\nAuthor(s): Michel Bruneau\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Prometheus Books, United States\nImprint: Prometheus Books\nISBN-13: 9781633888234, 978-1633888234\nSynopsis\nAre we doomed? As individuals, certainly, eventually, inevitably. But as a species? As a civilization? Leading catastrophe engineer Michel Bruneau thinks perhaps not. The Blessings of Disaster draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines to illustrate how our civilizations future successes and failures in dealing with societal threatsbe they pandemics, climate change, overpopulation, monetary collapse, and nuclear holocaustcan be predicted by observing how we currently cope with and react to natural and technological disasters. Maybe most importantly, this entertaining and often counter-intuitive book shows how we can think in better ways about disasters, to strengthen and extend our existence as both individuals and as a sp.