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Title: The Edge of Disaster
Subtitle: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation
Author: Stephen Flynn
Narrator: Dick Hill
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-21-07
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 23 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
Publisher's Summary:
With chilling frankness and clarity, Flynn describes how we have become increasingly vulnerable to disaster by grossly neglecting the complex infrastructure that provides our water, food, health care, electricity, and transportation. Through a series of realistic scenarios, he dramatizes the prime areas of documented risk. An attack on a northern New Jersey chemical plant could kill untold thousands and cripple our largest urban area. A bio-pathogen secretly introduced into the cattle-feeder facilities concentrated around Amarillo, Texas, would turn the nation's food supply into an agent of death. The destruction of a ship with a cargo of explosive fuels in Los Angeles harbor could bring the West Coast economy to its knees.
But it doesn't have to be this way. After examining why we are more vulnerable to disaster than ever before, Flynn turns the tables and explores what we can do about it, as individuals and as a society. He outlines a detailed, pragmatic program we can embrace right now to enhance our preparedness across the board and ensure true national security.
Hard-hitting yet ultimately optimistic, The Edge of Disaster is a passionate call to make resiliency to disaster our top national priority. With the wounds of recent national tragedies still unhealed, this is a book no American can afford to ignore.
Critic Reviews:
"Flynn's book reads like a thriller but has the added punch of reality." (Booklist)