People Are Amazing
Popular Science has an amazing photo gallery of individuals fighting to save their homes from the recent flooding of the Mississippi River. Talking Points Memo also has a heart breaking photo gallery as well.
Archive for May, 2011
New Deepwater Horizon Book
Via Mother Jones:
Antonia Juhasz’s Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill surveys the overconfidence in safety and technology that led to the situation on the Deepwater Horizon and the scale of the disaster it unleashed. Juhasz, who directs the energy program at the environment and human rights group Global Exchange, talks to the families of the victims of the explosion, combs through accounts of the survivors, and pulls together many of the strings of the story of what really happened on April 20 in a way that’s both engaging and informative.
