Disaster

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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.