Orts #980
"The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries on earth, victim to typhoons, earthquakes, floods, landslides and tsunamis, among other calamities. Early this year, Taal Volcano sent plumes of ash into the sky, threatening Manila." And now rising sea levels . . .
Some harrowing photos in this article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/world/asia/philippines-climate-change-batasan-tubigon.html
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Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty.
-- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), in The Souls of Black Folk
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Disaster Capitalism and the Climate Hellscape
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/602995/disaster-capitalism/
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Your Humble Orts-Editor Missed It!
February 9 was Alligators in the Sewers Day
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/nyregion/alligators-sewers-new-york.html