Voices.
In: Earth Island Journal, Jg. 20 (2006), Heft 4, S. 48
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The article focuses on the climate related disasters. Hurricane Katrina was level 1 storm, the lowest category of hurricane, until blistering temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico supercharged it to level 5. The storm's virulence is likely related to global warming, much like the recent forest fires that ravaged Southern California, floods that covered much of Bangladesh, and European heat waves that killed 35,000 people two years before. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played a key role, as an energy lobbyist, in convincing the Bush administration to break its campaign promise to support limits on the carbon dioxide emissions that fuel global warming. This catastrophe built on the slow-burn disaster that's been hitting America's poorest communities for decades. The wealthy and comfortable could evacuate New Orleans and did, though their lives were severely disrupted. But in one of the nation's poorest cities, vast numbers of citizens had nowhere to go, and no transportation or money with which to leave. They were the people left desperately trying to get out.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Loeb, Paul Rogat |
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Zeitschrift: | Earth Island Journal, Jg. 20 (2006), Heft 4, S. 48 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2006 |
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ISSN: | 1041-0406 (print) |
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