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Resilient Americans

We May Not Have It All Together, but Together We Have It All

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Resilient Americans

By: Diane Burden Cox
Narrated by: Diane Burden Cox
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Anything that alienates and divides us leaves us weak and exposed to disaster. Simple human compassion is more essential to our national resilience and strength than most of us recognize. Shallow values won’t suffice as the foundation of our social and cultural infrastructure.

With anecdotes and unexpected stories about growing up during the '60s and '70s in Los Angeles and from her work in disaster recovery, Diane Burden Cox illustrates the importance of our relationships with each other to our national resilience.

If we want a resilient infrastructure as a nation - clean water supply, buildings, bridges, roads, energy grids, health and education systems - we need to recognize that it rests on the strength of our interactions with each other. Resilience isn't just one more thing to put on our national to-do list; it's something we can actually enjoy and have fun cultivating together.

©2018 Diane Burden Cox (P)2019 Diane Burden Cox
Civics & Citizenship Disaster Relief Political Science Politics & Government Resilience Social Policy Social Sciences United States World Social justice
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