![]() The city exists because fossil fuels still power the global economy. But the apocalyptic response is a framework in which it makes sense to answer the question – Should Houston Exist? – with a resounding no. This is not a belief one hears espoused so much in Houston, a city premised on fossil fuels, but also one that still pictures a bright future always in front of it. If the world will not simply burst into a ball of flames, awful catastrophes loom. One response, familiar to Houston, is denial, or the idea that climate change may well be nothing but a “hoax” of a ruling and jet setting global elite, who all, making it even worse, are the ones who have benefited most from the economic growth that is said to have resulted from human-induced global warming.Īnother is the apocalyptic response. There are two responses to climate change that appear to be polar opposites of one another, but in fact lead to very much the same result. While I was working on this project, in September 2019 Tropical Storm Imelda struck Houston and some parts of the city disastrously flooded again. On Despairing of the Police and Loving their Archives.The First 30 Days of the COVID Pandemic, February-March 2020.Reflecting on the Archive During a Pandemic: WHO.Out of lockdown in the Age of Revolutions: Jean-Baptiste Say’s tour of Britain, 1814.Who Benefits from Technological Progress (And What Bugs Have to Do with It).
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