Disaster 
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/31/2021
Hurricane Ida Shows the Climate Dystopia Ahead for All of Us
by Andy Horowitz
"Structural problems need structural solutions. Don’t give charity to Louisiana because it’s unique. Demand that Congress take meaningful action, because Louisiana is not unique, and you may be next."
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2/18/2021
The Texas Weather and Power Catastrophe
by HNN Staff
The combination of severe winter storms and persistent cold and a deregulated energy supply system without compulsion to invest in winterization has left Texans without power, heat or drinking water for days. Senator Ted Cruz appears to have decamped to Cancun while politicians blame wind and solar power for frozen natural gas refineries.
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SOURCE: The Metropole
8/5/2020
Urban Disaster And Recovery: An Overview And Bibliography Of The Resilient City
"Different sorts of urban disasters—terrorist attacks, floods, earthquakes, diseases—have elicited different responses, policy prescriptions, and behaviors." A bibliographical essay explains what cities have done and how historians have interpreted it.
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SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
5/5/2020
COVID-19, the Halifax Explosion, and Crises of Care
by Jacob Remes
Because disasters are part of history, not outside of it, they can bring into relief structures of society that were always there.
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