In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Centrist groups want to see Democrats retreat from climate policy. That’s the wrong thing to do—both morally and strategically.
Readers Comments: Big Death Bill; DOGE Cuts Warnings, Texas Approves Camp Mystic disaster plan two days before flood, DHS Now Cancels Extreme Warning Grants - More Disasters to Come; Zohran Mamdani; New Gaza Flotilla Handala Launches next week; more
Reader Comments: Tyre Nichols Murder; Ilhan Omar; Rent Control; Climate Disaster; David Crosby; Making Sense of the Ukraine War and confusion on the Left; Medical Debt; Reconstruction; Antisemitism; More Announcements; Cartoons;
Flooding in Pakistan is the latest in a long line of climate disasters. Now the 150,000 residents of Jackson, Mississippi were ordered to evacuate as flooding hit the city. This weekend, temperatures in California are projected to hit 115°F.
If ordinary people can overcome powerful companies to protect their water in a poor country like El Salvador, imagine what their counterparts can do here.
Texas brought this crisis on themselves by insisting on operating their own power grid that doesn’t connect with others; by failing to do anything to make the grid more resilient; by creating a political system that is controlled by power and money.
Fire in the Anthropocene has become the physical equivalent of endless nuclear war. A new, profoundly sinister nature is rapidly emerging from our fire rubble at the expense of landscapes we once considered sacred.
The coronavirus may not, in retrospect, prove to be the tipping point that upends human civilization as we know it, but it should serve as a warning that we will experience ever more such events in the future as the world heats up.
Devastation from Hurricane Dorian provokes calls for reporters to acknowledge the climate emergency's connection to extreme weather
Spread the word