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There are no distinguishable boundaries separating COVID-19, racial violence, environmental racism, & an inequality-producing economy. It's one disaster process--carving it up into separable parts has allowed (some of) us to live a fiction for too long.
2. Any disaster/resilience research programs that do not engage with economic inequality, history, racism, disaster communication/trust, or legacies of violence are, frankly, of little use now.
3. There is no "smart city" that perpetuates structural racism and immolates in protest & violence. There is no "resilient nation" that buries 100,000 from a preventable pandemic.
4. There are no technological fixes for disaster USA. There is not a disaster app for what we are living through.
5. I have the greatest respect for engineers/scientists & health professionals who are now building social justice and historical analysis into their projects. We need MUCH more of this! @NSF
6. Any discussion of "fixing America's infrastructure" is useless until we deal honestly w/the continuum from poverty/racism > structural inequality > deferred maintenance. Those are predominantly socio-economic problems!
7, In other words there is no ASCE Report Card for structural inequality (though there should be)--and the false separation of the technological from the social is now becoming visible to all.
8. This calls for a revolution in disaster research & policy! From the funding agencies/foundations to the universities to government agencies and into the private sector: PLEASE NO MORE false separation of history from disaster preparedness.
9. Asking minority communities to be "resilient" and show "grit" is, well there's no nice way to put this, deeply racist. It needs to stop.
10. I'm not especially hopeful that we will re-constitute our disaster knowledge production system in this moment--I see harmful and amnesiac continuity everywhere.
But, but . . . maybe. /end
But, but . . . maybe. /end
