N'Awlinz

The chaos and destruction that has taken place in New Orleans is a huge event, both for the people directly impacted, and for everyone else. It is having major impacts on the price of oil, and the supply of natural gas in the U.S. Possibly thousands of people are dead, and tens of thousands homeless. Although it hasn't directly affected any of us in this country, I still can't help imagining what it must be like for those who have lost everything they own. And hoping that they have good insurance.
I can't help feeling that the media is, if anything, not giving this the weight it deserves. Perhaps we're all sort of immune to things nowadays, but this is a whole city, basically destroyed. A whole city. That's a lot. A lot of history, a lot of lives. And I can't help feeling that we are beginning to see the serious beginning of the changes predicted by climate scientists - more extreme weather, leading to more disasters of this kind. I only hope that, just as the attack on the WTC started a rather manic "war on terror", the destruction of New Orleans will start an equally determined war on global warming.
Well, I can dream, can't I?