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There are no distinguishable boundaries separating COVID-19, racial violence, environmental racism, & an inequality-producing economy. It& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s no nice way to put this, deeply racist. It needs to stop.
10. I& #39;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
