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What natural disaster can teach us Wednesday, October 11, 2017
What natural disaster can teach us
What natural disaster can teach us
Extracted Page: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-warnke-natural-manmade-disasters-climate-change-20171011-story.html
A friend living in St. Thomas recently marked herself “safe” on Facebook for the second time in two weeks. She was safe in only the most critical and cursory sense, which is to say she was alive. Her home and her business had been reduced to rubble.
Puerto Rico has been destroyed by hurricanes. Last month, hundreds died in Mexican earthquakes. Hurricane Irma hit the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Florida Keys, and laid waste to Barbuda. Harvey devastated parts of Texas. Fifteen separate fires have turned thousands of Northern California homes and businesses to dust and smoked out neighboring cities. Aerial video from that area recalls nothing
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