{"id":2840,"date":"2025-11-14T21:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:33:34","slug":"november-23-2025-cuba-climate-environmental-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/november-23-2025-cuba-climate-environmental-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"November 23, 2025: Cuba, Climate & Environmental Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cuba, Climate & Environmental Disasters
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 23
2pm Pacific Tim<\/strong>e \/ 5pm Eastern Time<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Twenty years ago Hurricane Katrina was \u201cprobably the worst catastrophe\u201d in modern U.S. history, even according to then-Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. Since then massive wildfires, droughts, and flash floods have swept much of the world with tremendous and deadly consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And more are sure to come \u2013 as in the unprecedentedly-powerful Hurricane Melissa that just ravaged Jamaica and Haiti before hitting Cuba. Meanwhile gross environmental disasters like the toxic derailment in Ohio, the 300-million gallon sludge-pond breach in Kentucky, and the 800+ killed by a heatwave in Chicago also rock us here at home.
While climate change is real \u2013a direct product of blind and heedless capitalist production\u2013 evidence shows \u201cnatural disasters\u201d are rooted in structural inequality and governmental disdain for those who aren\u2019t wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How must and how are working people responding? Why did revolutionary-though-impoverished Cuba lose only 15 lives when Katrina hit it as a Force Five hurricane when over 1800 people died in New Orleans in a Force Three?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it too much to say this a life-or-death discussion? After all, we have only one planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cuba, Climate & Environmental Disasters SUNDAY NOVEMBER 23 2pm Pacific Time \/ 5pm Eastern Time CLICK HERE TO REGISTER! Twenty years ago Hurricane Katrina was \u201cprobably the worst catastrophe\u201d in modern U.S. history, even according to then-Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. Since then massive wildfires, droughts, and flash floods have swept much of the world with tremendous and deadly consequences. And more are sure to come \u2013 as in the unprecedentedly-powerful Hurricane Melissa that just ravaged Jamaica and Haiti before hitting Cuba. Meanwhile gross environmental disasters like the toxic derailment in Ohio, the 300-million gallon sludge-pond breach in Kentucky, and the 800+ killed by a heatwave in Chicago also rock us here at home.While climate change is real \u2013a direct product of blind and heedless capitalist production\u2013 evidence shows \u201cnatural disasters\u201d are rooted in structural inequality and governmental disdain for those who aren\u2019t wealthy. How must and how are working people responding? Why did revolutionary-though-impoverished Cuba lose only 15 lives when Katrina hit it as a Force Five hurricane when over 1800 people died in New Orleans in a Force Three? Is it too much to say this a life-or-death discussion? After all, we have only one planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate_change_cuba_helen_august.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dbkE-JO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}