By now most of us are painfully aware that many of the record breaking
storms are due to climate change. Most of the world's people already realize
this. But there are those who just refuse to admit it, such as our idiot
President Donald Trump. Of course educated people know climate change is real.
Trump, and others like him, just don't want the business community to have to
take a responsibility for the messes they have made. We need to keep reminding
the general public that climate change is real. It is caused by industrial pollution
over the last 200 years and we are already paying for it. -SJ Otto
From CNN:
Local
communities almost always pull together on the ground after natural disasters like
the torrential flooding that has submerged Houston .
But the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey is likely to strain America 's
fraying capacity to coalesce as a national community at a moment of heightened
political conflict and division.
Amid the images of devastation and loss, Americans this weekend
repeatedly watched stirring scenes of ordinary people organizing makeshift
flotillas to rescue families trapped in the epic flooding. In the rising
waters, partisan, racial and class lines all seemed to dissolve.
Yet, once the immediate danger has passed, the response to the
storm will raise larger political questions on at least two major fronts: the
cost of recovery and the role of climate change in intensifying the risk of
such devastating storms. Each of those issues will challenge America 's
ability to surmount its differences enough to set a shared national direction.
Like Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy before it, Harvey may demonstrate
just how much the man-made gales of political polarization has diminished the
nation's capacity to forge common cause against even the fiercest natural
disasters.
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