The Mike Davis book on avian flu is
. For price of admission, you get the most lively/accessible science writing I've ever read + a history of influenza outbreaks as suspenseful as any Crichton novel + a devastating socialist critique of the global ag and pharma industries.
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Yeah. I do hope history somehow starts proving him to be an alarmist after all tho, because the forecast one derives from his work suggests a strong chance of imminent, world-historic mass death events.
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The ability of the East Asian countries to respond gives me some hope that humanity can get on top of this (Europe and North America much less so).
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He also seems to have no media coverage. I don’t know if this is strictly true but I never hear of him.
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PLEASE do! Somebody’s gotta get him to tell the story about the strike of tour bus drivers he was involved in in LA back before he went to college.
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Please do! He is required reading to truly understand Los Angeles's history at the very least.
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