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Wendy Kaminer
The political storm over climate change
The fallout from Hurricane Sandy confirms how hard it is to have a rational debate about climatic issues.
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| Wednesday 31 October 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
New York: standing tall against nature’s wrath
Let’s praise the manmade structures that withstood Sandy’s fury rather than fretting about allegedly manmade Frankenstorms.
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| Wednesday 31 October 2012 |
Nancy McDermott
Sandy was a bitch, not the apocalypse
This storm reminded us that nature can be tough but that the people of New York are even tougher.
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| Wednesday 31 October 2012 |
Alan Miller
Keeping calm and carrying on
A Manhattan resident, reporting from the eye of the storm, is glad to find New York’s leaders acting rationally.
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| Wednesday 31 August 2011 |
Tim Black
The politics of fear blows into New York
The world’s greatest city was brought to a standstill not by Hurricane Irene, but by politicians’ worst-case thinking.
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| Tuesday 30 August 2011 |
Sean Collins
What the hurricane hype reveals about NYC
City Hall’s overreaction to Irene suggests New York City is losing its reputation for toughness and swagger.
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| Monday 4 July 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Who’s really fibbing about Fukushima?
The way greens tried to play up the accident was far more shocking than ministers’ attempts to ‘play it down’.
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| Monday 4 April 2011 |
Ben Pile
Fukushima: why greens turned on each other
The reaction to events in Japan shows that fear – of climate change or radiation – trumps old solidarities.
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| Thursday 24 March 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Japan needs our solidarity, not a blame game
The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback.
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| Thursday 24 March 2011 |
Tim Black
My catastrophe is bigger than yours
Anti-nuclear activists’ exploitation of the instability at Fukshima is a historic low point - even for them.
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| Thursday 24 March 2011 |
Matthias Heitmann
The globalisation of German angst
Never mind the people in Japan — for fearful Germans, every natural disaster is now ‘all about us’.
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| Wednesday 16 March 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Five lessons from Fukushima
Alarmist talk of a nuclear crisis in Japan reveals just how fearful modern society has become.
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| Monday 14 March 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Japan: a catastrophe, not a disaster movie
Forget the Hollywood-style finger-pointing about human ‘arrogance’ and ‘powerlessness’ – we can overcome and learn from the worst disasters.
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| Monday 14 March 2011 |
Ben Pile
Making mountains out of meltdowns
Despite the scaremongering of the media and green groups, the real lesson of Fukushima is that nuclear power is safe.
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| Thursday 6 January 2011 |
Tim Black
Australia: flooded by gloomy reporters
For all the disaster porn about a Biblical-style flood, Queenslanders have demonstrated real resilience.
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| Thursday 26 August 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Après le deluge, the ghoulish opportunists
Everyone from anti-terror crusaders to end-of-the-world greens is exploiting the Pakistani floods to revive their own flagging careers.
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| Thursday 19 August 2010 |
Tim Black
Pakistan’s floods and ‘disaster narcissism’
How the deluge in Asia was turned into an opportunity for Western preening and political oneupmanship.
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| Tuesday 2 March 2010 |
Alex Standish
How to save humanity from nature’s whims
The differences between the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes show why we need real development in the Third World.
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| Thursday 28 January 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Haiti: an all-singing, all-dancing, celebrity disaster
How did Haiti so quickly become a conduit for celebrity emoting, celebrity gossip and even celebrity rescue operations?
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| Monday 18 January 2010 |
Frank Furedi
To rescue Haitians, we need to take risks
The slow delivery of aid to Haitians suggests that even the noble mission of saving lives has been subordinated to the dictates of risk-aversion.
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