Hurricane Harvey likely to provoke polarizing fights

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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