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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Please join us today for this
year's Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics. Our speaker is
Charles Perrow, author of <b><i>Normal Accidents</i></b>. His most recent
book (and the title for Monday's talk) is <b><i>The Next Catastrophe:
Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist
Disasters </i></b>(Princeton University Press).<br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>The Next Catastrophe:
Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to <br>
Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters <br><br>
</font><font size=4>Charles Perrow<br>
</b></font>Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale
University <br><br>
<b>4:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater (E15-lower level)<br>
reception will immediately follow lecture<br><br>
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<u>Abstract:<br>
</u>Our organizations such as the Department of Homeland Security are not
up to the mounting threats of natural, industrial, and terrorist
disasters, and never will be. Perrow argues that the ethical course is to
reduce the size of targets for these threats. We should deconcentrate
populations in highly risky areas, deconcentrate the hazardous materials
in our populated areas, and deconcentrate the powerful corporations that
sit astride our critical infrastructure.<br><br>
The talk is free and open to the public; the location is wheelchair
accessible. Location on the MIT campus is near the Kendall/MIT stop
on the RedLine. To view campus map with location of building E15:
<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E15" eudora="autourl">
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E15</a><br><br>
Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390</blockquote></body>
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