Greg
Worthwhile read, absolutely critical topic, but pretty repetitive and ultimately doesn't really transcend its nature as an academic artifact.
makes the case that the whole current mode of insurance ends up individualizing risk, which will actually accelerate inequality in a climate-changing world, whereas a different paradigm for insurance could be an opportunity to establish new forms of solidarity amid chaos.
The book is a history / case study of the National Flood Insruance Program as-is, and there are important lessons to learn in that all within the individualizing paradigm (and some lessons to learn about the possibility of alternative solidaristic paradigm) so it's not really fair to expect it to do more work to venture in the direction of what could be rather than what has been. but that's what I wanted as a reader, and I got a taste of it only at the very end. so. three stars.
Worthwhile read, absolutely critical topic, but pretty repetitive and ultimately doesn't really transcend its nature as an academic artifact.
makes the case that the whole current mode of insurance ends up individualizing risk, which will actually accelerate inequality in a climate-changing world, whereas a different paradigm for insurance could be an opportunity to establish new forms of solidarity amid chaos.
The book is a history / case study of the National Flood Insruance Program as-is, and there are important lessons to learn in that all within the individualizing paradigm (and some lessons to learn about the possibility of alternative solidaristic paradigm) so it's not really fair to expect it to do more work to venture in the direction of what could be rather than what has been. but that's what I wanted as a reader, and I got a taste of it only at the very end. so. three stars.