Fundamental realities much of our modern life denies or forgets: We exist in bodies and we live on a planet. Singular, fragile, precious.https://twitter.com/Joeycules/status/901808200567197696 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Joey Palacios 😷
Fundamental realities much of our modern life denies or forgets: We exist in bodies and we live on a planet. Singular, fragile, precious.https://twitter.com/Joeycules/status/901808200567197696 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Eric Holthaus
Fourth largest city in the United States.https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/901829651810488321 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted National Weather Service
National Weather Service is not—and has not—been mincing words. Lack of mandatory evacuation will be a topic.https://twitter.com/NWS/status/901832717070983169 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Joseph Duarte
True, evacuating millions isn't easy either. But it is something we will have to consider—esp. with climate change.https://twitter.com/Joseph_Duarte/status/901822412647530497 …
zeynep tufekci added,
May we treat Houston much, much better than we did New Orleans, and may we learn from it all. :-(
Remember: there'll be reports of horrible, Hobbesian behavior in the Harvey aftermath. They'll almost all be wrong! Disasters fuel altruism.
After Katrina, people displayed enormous solidarity in the Superdome, kept deaths to a minimum. Other claims were wrong, racist and WRONG.
It's not that everyone is an angel in the aftermath of a disaster—but research & experience is clear: overwhelming numbers rise to occasion.
BUT: This altruism has a shelf life. Proper recovery will take years. It will be frustrating and exhausting. Choose organizations wisely.
I suspect it is not so much that altruism has an intrinsic shelf life rather than it subcuums to the ambient extortion of the current order.
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