[Sci-tech-public] TODAY! Charles Perrow Lecture "The Next Catastrophe" @ 4pm, MIT Bartos Theater

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>Please join us today for this year's Arthur Miller Lecture on 
>Science and Ethics.  Our speaker is Charles Perrow, author of Normal 
>Accidents. His most recent book (and the title for Monday's talk) is 
>The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, 
>Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (Princeton University Press).
>
>The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to
>Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
>
>Charles Perrow
>Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University
>
>4:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater (E15-lower level)
>reception will immediately follow lecture
>
>Abstract:
>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.
>
>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: 
>http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E15
>
>Debbie Meinbresse
>STS Program, MIT
>617-452-2390
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