section-disaster_tech

These are CIEJ’s guiding principles for Green New Deal supporters who believe in expanding the GND cosmovision beyond US / Global North-centric techno-optimism. Don’t reduce the problem to temperature and CO2.Climate change refers to a long-term change in weather patterns, including temperature, precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events such as droughts and hurricanes. The earth … A Challenge to Green New Deal Activists: We Need to Reject “Sustainable” Technologies That Reproduce Colonial Gold Rush Devastation on Indigenous Peoples

On the second night of Storm Uri’s landfall in central Texas in February 2021, I could see downtown Austin’s lights ablaze from the highest point of my neighborhood on the other side of I-35, the highway that runs north and south along the eastern edge of the city center. On the side of the divide … Infrastructural Collapse and Disaster Preparedness in Austin, Texas

Mexico City is digging in to prepare for a wetter—and rapidly sinking—future. Like Jakarta and New Orleans, much of the metropolis of twenty-two million is literally falling under the weight of its own growth. A century of unrelenting groundwater pumping has led to runaway land subsidence, with no clear short- to medium-term solution. This undermines … Socialize Flooding: Creating Collective Sacrifice Zones in Mexico City