Harvey wasn’t just bad weather. It’s an example of the destruction that takes place when corporate profits & unregulated growth take precedence over investment in public infrastructure.

On By Clear Blue Sky Out WestIn Articles to check out, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, corporatism and / or plutocracy

When we allow unbridled growth, don’t invest wisely in infrastructure and just suck all the profits out of a region for a small number of corporate and wealthy beneficiaries (who live elsewhere), human beings lose.  And people die.

Harvey Wasn’t Just Bad Weather. It Was Bad City Planning – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-31/a-hard-rain-and-a-hard-lesson-for-houston

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