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Disaster Recovery and Big Government

sastyk | January 30, 2012

Christian Parenti has a really good article in TomDispatch about the reasons why Climate Change may change people'st thinking about the role of government: Global warming and the freaky, increasingly extreme weather that will accompany it is going to change all that. After all, there is only one institution that actually has the capacity to deal with multibillion-dollar natural disasters on an increasingly routine basis. Private security firms won't help your flooded or tornado-struck town. Private insurance companies are systematically withdrawing coverage from vulnerable coastal areas.…