The Metro: The power of preventing problems instead of responding to them
Author of “Imagine Doing Better: Why Policies Backfire and How Prevention Thinking Can Change Everything” joins the show to discuss the benefits of changing policies to resolve problems before they spin into crises.
In America, we have a lot of very big problems, including climate change, income and wealth inequality and hyper partisanship.
How should we tackle these problems?
Paul Fleming is an associate professor of public health at the University of Michigan. He believes we need to focus more on preventing problems from occurring in the first place.
It’s that mindset, detailed in his book, “Imagine Doing Better,” that he hopes will help us get to the root of the problems we seek to resolve before they turn into crises.
WDET’s Sam Corey spoke with Professor Fleming. They began by talking about why policy is important to focus on at all.
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