What doesn't need to be done is rolling back the one tiny bright spot that has saved so many lives and kept so many people and their children from experiencing life-changing devastation, arriving too late.
Cataloging the devastation's changing shapes and faces over time so that we will remember and not forget.
Blame whoever you will, but the fact is the news today is filled with devastation, life changing, country altering, social policy ripping things; events that wind up a major news story for a minute and then float away unsolved, unresolved, but again unnoticed.
Though the earthquake and tsunami were not human caused, we are entering the Anthropocene, a time when the changing climate will cause much devastation.
"Eighty by 50" has been a recent refrain in secular environmental circles -- we need an 80percentt reduction in emissions, by 2050, in order to stave off the worst of the scientifically-predicted devastation caused by our changing the climate.
When such disasters do strike -- like Sandy, whose devastation was undoubtedly connected to changing water temperatures and sea level rise -- no governor, Republican or otherwise, would ever actually turn down federal disaster relief.
In an emotional speech, Yeb Sano linked the "staggering" devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan to a changing climate.
The Lower East Side, Harlem and certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn experienced similar devastation and notoriety, and they have succeeded in changing.
That's the problem with a binary, dualistic thought-style: it finds devastation in the most trivial ebb and flow of ever changing life.
They argued that in Africa, there is evidence that masculinities are changing as 'the dimensions of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and the devastation of families are forcing some men to question gender norms and attitudes that were once unquestionable' (p. 44).
It is a scene of devastation en route to grandeur in the far from exclusive but rapidly changing Manhattan Valley neighborhood.
