Braden Solt reviewed There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer
Review of 'There Are No Accidents' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
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The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster--Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
320 pages
English language
Published Jan. 21, 2022 by Simon & Schuster.
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This book is a profound and compassionate response to a horrific "accident" (crash) that killed the author's best friend. Singer digs deep into U.S. society's flawed notion of "accidents" and unpacks the conditions that make these "accidents" inevitable, the biases that block us from seeing them clearly and the obstacles to preventing them. I'd recommend this to everyone really, but particularly anyone involved/interested in government, city planning, harm reduction, and societal systems. The more we know, the more we can work toward prevention.