#Disasters

Maitreyi Bordia Das

Today’s session on women and “natural disasters” spawned this thread in my head. I mean. The thoughts were there. The thread is here.Let me start w 2 tropes. 1.Women are

"Contagion may be a leading cause of death, but the worst thing it ever does is prompt us to recoil from one another—much the greater injury: to our health, to

Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

CarlSchleussner

We are all just experiencing first-hand how societal disruption feels like. Not comparable, but devastating for those affected can disasters disrupt societies. In a new study we have assessed the

Digression: A little story about your own "reality bubble" and "reality". Our church had a talent show some years ago, where we had a tragedy. One of the performers in

Laura says #BlackLivesMatter #DefundThePolice 🌅‏

I see a lot of messaging that's like, "We need a Green New Deal now, or else we'll keeping having [insert latest climate-fueled disaster here]," and like....even if we stopped

Roger Pielke Jr.

InterestingFormer NOAA official admits tabulation of “billion dollar” disasters was/is a shadow campaign to get people to “connect the dots” on climate change and severe weatherWhy not instead rely on

George Mothibedi Motaung🇿🇦

THE CRASH OF THE DEBT MARKET:The Factors Surrounding the Crash of the Financial Markets is beyond the Theories of Economists and Big Investment Banks, the Crash is going to be

Parveen Kaswan, IFS

Meanwhile first time in #human history CO2 #atmospheric concentration is set to reach 416 PPM. We crossed 415 last May. Never recorded in history of our #species. Last time when

I'm not sure there's anything to say beyond impotently bleating what's already been said, but my god, the explosion in Beirut yesterday just feels like yet another example of human

There are well identified stages of how people feel and act after a huge shock. We've been at the 'honeymoon' stage, where lots of us feel a sense of agency

Mental health is a huge priority for young people. That has been true for a long time now and the coronavirus disaster is only putting more pressure on young people.

Over a decade ago I was talking w/the great disaster scholar Russell Dynes (RIP) and he clued me in to the importance of the tremendous compound disaster that struck Lisbon

Parker🗿check pinned /srs

tw // natural disasterswe should normalize putting tws over natural disasters! and heres why:(rt to spread the word, this is extremely important to me personally) tws for this thread, in

One of the key technologies which has helped in #crowdsourced response to extreme #weather #disasters (#fires #floods #hurricanes) these last years has been ability to monitor local emergency radio channels

New UN report claims climate-related disasters have doubledThe report is incompetent and wrong on pretty much all accountsThe report should be withdrawnThreadReport here: https://www.undrr.org/news/drrday-report-dramatic-rise-climate-disast

Timothy Sandefur

TimothySandefur

Also known as, governors can't just unilaterally change the election laws by fiat, allow ppl to vote after the election's over, & censor news about the election results--all w/out statutory