Get Ready For the New Norm For Disaster Relief

As government becomes more gridlocked because of competing special interests, and extraordinary turbulence continues to enter both atmospheric systems, as well as social systems, more disasters are sure to be a part of every year now. And it won't matter if its hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought driven wildfires, or having large sectors of the economy stop functioning because of labor strife, a debt implosion, or new sickness, or a sudden lack of a critical resource, because fighting somewhere else has broken out  (or whatever other disaster you can imagine). The net effect in each case will likely be significant at the very least with each new event, and much more than that, in total, singular effect, getting more likely all the time.

In other words folks unfinished disaster relief is going to start accumulating. And eventually, if not already, people only half along from getting back on their feet will be pushed back once again; at which point one can only hope they're not pushed back even further than the last one set them back with.

And all the while the very operating system that caused the lion's share of all of this "extraordinary turbulence" will continue to thwart our ever being able to deal with the accumulated burden we put into so many natural systems; the burden that now makes them strain at the extremes of their carrying capacity. Just as this operating system continues to pursue production and consumption as if nothing of any real substance has occurred at all in the last couple hundred years. Just get the idea (by hook or crook of course), make the product, and cash in baby! Let the devil take the hindmost.

None of this seems very appealing to me. I can't imagine how it could be appealing to anyone who values the amazing biological miracle that this planet represents. Is it really all that appealing to you?

Maria and Harvey wiped out homes — and hopes. Kids have been devastated.