Global denial: Katrina is a portent. But will it cause Americans to embrace fundamental change in how we consume energy and understand politics?(Hurricane Katrina)
American Prospect, The, October, 2005 by Gelbspan, Ross
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AS FLOODWATERS RECEDE AND bodies emerge, Americans are belatedly making some terrible connections about the Bush administration, which has a contempt for public planning matched only by its habit of subordinating reality to public relations. One aspect, of course, is Iraq. The other is the needless tragedy in New Orleans.
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The Hurricane Katrina disaster is also a curtain-raiser for the largest-ever challenge to public planning: the consequences of global warming. If the present complacency continues, we will see more flooding, more breakdown of democratic civil order, more loss ...
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