SOCI 100 Chapter : Hurricane Katrina
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Course reader: hurricane katrina and the myth of natural disasters. Issued report saying a hurricane that would hit new orleans was one of three most likely disasters to hit the us. Yet nothing was done to prepare for inevitable. Powerful people in new orleans have made economic and political decisions that placed the city, especially its black people, at high risk of hurricane related death. Powerful people resisted charging the american government with responsibility for ensuring the welfare of the citizenry as a whole. Disappearance of coastal wetlands (first line of defense, decreased storm surge) Inadequacy of levees: us army corps of engineers supposedly built a wall to withstand category 3 storm. On going efforts to restore wetlands in the area in 1990. Bush ended these efforts by allowing unrestricted development in the wetlands. Two months after katrina: bush refused to fund a plan to restore the barrier islands and wetlands.
