Rebecca Solnit - Articles - RealClearPolitics

The Reality of Our Changing Climate

Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Late last week, in the lobby of a particularly unglamorous downtown San Francisco building, a group of passionate but polite activists met with a bureaucrat who stepped forward to hear what they had to say about the fate of the Earth. The activists wanted to save the world. The particular part of it that might be under their control involved getting the San Francisco Retirement board to divest its half a billion dollars in fossil fuel holdings, one piece of the international divestment movement that arose a year ago. - See more at: http://www.thenation.com/article/176520/our-house-fire-reality-our-changing-climate#sthash.TribPc1X.dpuf

Hurricane Katrina at Five

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Five years later we're still coming to terms with what happened in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, and thereafter, struggling to get the facts straight and to figure out what it said about race, disaster and even human nature. How we remember Hurricane Katrina is also how we'll prepare for future disasters, so getting the story right matters for survival as well as for justice and history.

In August 2005, 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast were devastated; more than 1,800 people died; 182,000 homes were severely damaged in New Orleans alone, where 80 percent of the city was flooded.

Embracing the Obama Era

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600