... to those disasters that cause massive property damage and fantastic images great for our sensationalized media, yet are many times less fatal. Usually news of seven hundred deaths in a week is seen as a major catastrophe, so how then was the person who had the greatest ability to ... or forty years ago is to take into account how the government reacted. Klinenberg makes quite an emotional response at the end of the book when he says, "Hundreds of Chicago residents died alone during the heat wave and were assisted by two potentially life saving interventions - attention from state-sponsor...

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• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate