《没有事故：伤痛与灾难的致命崛起》[有声书]——谁获利，谁承担代价

English | February 15, 2022 | ASIN: B09FFTJZ4G | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 50m | 252 MB

A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America.

We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But as Jessie Singer argues convincingly: There are no such things as accidents. The vast majority of mishaps are not random but predictable and preventable. Singer uncovers just how the term accident itself protects those in power and leaves the most vulnerable in harm’s way, preventing investigations, pushing off debts, blaming the victims, diluting anger, and even sparking empathy for the perpetrators.

As the rate of accidental death skyrockets in America, the poor and people of color end up bearing the brunt of the violence and blame, while the powerful use the excuse of the “accident” to avoid consequences for their actions. Born of the death of her best friend, and the killer who insisted it was an accident, this book is a moving investigation of the sort of tragedies that are all too common, and all too commonly ignored.

In this revelatory book, Singer tracks accidental death in America from turn of the century factories and coal mines to today’s urban highways, rural hospitals, and Superfund sites. Drawing connections between traffic accidents, accidental opioid overdoses, and accidental oil spills, Singer proves that what we call accidents are hardly random. Rather, who lives and dies by an accident in America is defined by money and power. She also presents a variety of actions we can take as individuals and as a society to stem the tide of “accidents” - saving lives and holding the guilty to account.

记者讲述了那些令人惊讶的事故历史，并揭示它们如何定义了美国的一切问题。

我们经常听到这样的话：“对不起，只是个意外。”并且我们都已深深地被条件化去接受这个解释并继续前进。但正如吉赛尔·桑德森（Jessie Singer）有说服力地所论证的那样：事实上，并没有所谓的意外。绝大多数的失误是可预测且可预防的，而不是随机发生的。

桑德森揭露了事故这个词本身是如何保护那些掌权者，并将最脆弱的人置于危险之中。这阻碍了调查，转移了债务，推卸责任，减轻愤怒，并甚至引发了对施害者的同情。

随着美国死亡率的急剧上升，贫穷和有色人种群体最终要承担暴力和责难，而掌权者则利用“事故”这一借口来避免对自己的行为承担责任。这本关于她最好的朋友的死以及那个坚持称那是意外的凶手的故事书，是对那些太常见且常被忽视的悲剧的一次感人的调查。

在这部令人震惊的作品中，桑德森追踪了美国自20世纪初的工厂和煤矿到今天的城市高速公路、农村医院和超级基金遗址中的事故死亡。她将交通事故、意外阿片类过量使用以及意外石油泄漏联系起来，并证明我们所说的“事故”并不随机。相反，在美国谁死于或因事故而活是被金钱与权力所定义的。此外，这本书还提出了我们可以采取的各种个人和社会行动来阻止事故的趋势——挽救生命并追究有罪者的责任。

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