America Is Being Pummeled by Disasters
Hurricane Laura, the strongest storm on record to strike Louisiana, is yet another calamity on top of wildfires, wind storms, and the pandemic.
In the United States, disaster tends to strike in the late summer and fall, when hurricanes come ashore, wildfires rage across the West, and droughts reach their maxima. Beyond our borders, these months are the time of Amazon wildfires, of sweltering heat waves, of great urban floods. For some years now, I’ve covered climate change, which means covering the day-to-day convulsions of the Earth system, and quickly it became clear to me that August, September, and October make up the season of disaster. How
