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- After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face. In the Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, thousands are dead, bodies lie uncollected in the streets, tens of thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, and survivors are without food, water, shelter, medical care, or essential supplies. Meanwhile the police and the military are guarding stores "to prevent people from hauling off food, water" and other supplies.
- After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face.
- Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world.
- Flooding
Canada Water Book Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- The Heat Is On
The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
- Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
Resource Type: Database Published: 2005 The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank contributes to the ongoing effort by historians and archivists to preserve the record of these storms by collecting first-hand accounts, on-scene images, blog postings, and podcasts. We hope to foster some positive legacies by allowing the people affected by these storms to tell their stories in their own words, which as part of the historical record will remain accessible to a wide audience for generations to come.
- Hurricane Hazel
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979
- Hurricane Hazel
Canada's Storm of the Century Resource Type: Book Published: 2004
- Hurricane Mitch and Disaster Relief: The Politics of Catastrophe
Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 THE LEVEL OF destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch is hard to overstate. While there is no way to know exactly how many lives were affected by the category-five hurricane that devastated the region between October 26 and November 1, early reports indicated that across Central America 11,000 people are reported dead, 15,000 are missing and at least 2.4 million made homeless.
- A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
- Radical Digressions 3
Resource Type: Website Published: 2006
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- Season of dread returns as Haiti awaits devastating hurricane season
Decades of deforestation left the Carribbean island defenceless against last year's catastrophic hurricanes. But Haiti hopes attempts to sav Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 An examination of the continuing effects of recent hurricanes on the economy and ecology of Haiti.
- The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
- A Tale of Two Islands
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the world.
- When a hurricane swept through Toronto, this firefighter made the heartbreaking first rescue attempt
Hurricane Hazel caused 81 deaths and more than $1B in damages in 2017 dollars Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 On the wet and windy evening of Oct. 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel was bearing down on the city. The fire department was to take no unnecessary risks in the storm, which had already claimed more than 400 lives in Haiti and close to 100 in the United States. As it spiralled towards Canada, Hazel merged with a cold front, intensifying the system.
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