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Blackouts Reveal How Fragile Society Really Is Authored by John Walter via John Walter,"Long-term blackout" gets used loosely enough that people end up arguing past each other, and the confusion deepens because a week without power is a bad camping trip for somebody in rural Maine with a generator and a wood stove while being an outright catastrophe for a family on the fourteenth floor of a Miami condo with an insulin-dependent nine-year-old. Both readings are accurate, and neither is the subject here.For the rest of this piece the definition...

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