By now most of us are painfully aware that many of the record breaking storms are due to climate change. Most of the world's people already realize this. But there are those who just refuse to admit it, such as our idiot President Donald Trump. Of course educated people know climate change is real. Trump, and others like him, just don't want the business community to have to take a responsibility for the messes they have made. We need to keep reminding the general public that climate change is real. It is caused by industrial pollution over the last 200 years and we are already paying for it. -SJ Otto
From CNN:
Local communities almost always pull together on the ground after natural disasters like the torrential flooding that has submerged Houston
But the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey is likely to strain America
Amid the images of devastation and loss, Americans this weekend repeatedly watched stirring scenes of ordinary people organizing makeshift flotillas to rescue families trapped in the epic flooding. In the rising waters, partisan, racial and class lines all seemed to dissolve.
Yet, once the immediate danger has passed, the response to the storm will raise larger political questions on at least two major fronts: the cost of recovery and the role of climate change in intensifying the risk of such devastating storms. Each of those issues will challenge America
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Pix from CNN.