New Orleans In Louisiana we’re losing coastal wetlands and acres of land every day. A columnist in the Times-Picayune noted flatly, “…few states depend more on environmental regulations for survival than Louisiana. We’ve only been able to slow the destruction of our remaining coastal wetlands thanks to regulations under the Clean Water Act.” Talking to …
Category: Ideas and Issues
The Failure of Imagination in Thinking about Disasters
Cardiff FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Administration, has released an after-action report on its performance in Puerto Rico, and it met the disaster with a disastrously bad response. Responding to Hurricane Irma’s devastation of the Virgin Islands, they had emptied out their warehouse in Puerto Rico of almost all supplies as they tried to respond. …
Unwelcome Rallies for Trump in the UK
Cardiff President Trump’s summer disruption tour of Europe is leaving more scorched earth than the current heat wave across the United Kingdom. At NATO meetings he seems to have delivered a message to US allies to “pay up” or he was pulling out, even while signing agreements to increase military preparedness and continued pushback against …