A Grim Warning From Science

A Grim Warning From Science

Bill McKibbenhttp://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/nov/01/hurricane-sandy-warning-science/

Bebeto Matthews/AP Photo

Flooded streets under the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, New York, October 29, 2012

One of the things that makes Sandy different from Katrina is that it’s a relatively clean story. The lessons of Katrina were numerous and painful—they had to do with race, with class, with the willful incompetence of a government that had put a professional Arabian horse fancier in charge of its rescue efforts.