In reality, Fugate is tapping into something precious when it comes to Americans' response to disaster: our democracy, our public life, our own sense of ourselves as actors on our circumstances and our relationships to each other.
Disaster has the potential to bring us together as a society, says Solnit. Given the history of Americans' initial response to disaster, we seem to know what to do if and when disaster strikes. In the meantime, we need to build confidence and self-reliance in ourselves and educate our leaders about how we want to be treated when we are most vulnerable because given the depth of environmental damage due to climate change, most of us will most surely be affected.
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