Things That Left Me Shook Week 12
Two of my favorite songs of all time is “A Change Is Gonna Come” by The Neville Brothers and “When a Cajun Man Gets the Blues” by Tab Benoit. Coincidentally they are both featured in my favorite documentary Hurricane on The Bayou, but while I was reading this weeks articles both of those songs were playing in my head on a never ending loop. Imma be real with you, it’s hard to stay positive sometimes, but this week I ended up leaving the articles slightly more positive then I have been before and I genuinely believe it is because for the first time this semester I’ve read actual plans people **cough cough NEW ORLEANS and LOUISIANA cough cough** plus I think I am still on a high after reading about the suit Mayor Cantrell is filing against a number of oil, gas, and pipeline companies. I’m riding an environmental justice high right now, and honestly it feels kinda nice not gonna lie. However, I was still shaken by a couple of the readings, but that is the norm nowadays.
It was interesting to read about all the analyses of resilience and adaptation policies, techniques, and general ideas. I’ve never really thought about the pros and cons of each and this week’s readings were full to the brim of critiques of both of the trains of thoughts. The “Adaptation To Resilience Planning” article layer out a great case both for and against resilience planning. It is fantastic that resilience planning has a greater community involvement then adaptation planning, however resilience planning still has multiple problems like their allure to address equity and justice issues as well as their failure to address community consequences and multiple scenarios of climate change. Adaptation is more roust but it also has its own problems. The article “Racial Coastal Formation” addressed the problems adaptation has had with POC communities. Adaptation planning is “color-blind” (aka just focuses on the Whites) which is very problematic because it helps perpetuate the slow violence of environmental racism.
Key Words:
1) Resilience~ The capacity of a system to resist or bounce back from a disruption. Systems/integrated approach
2) Color-bind Adaptation~ Vulnerability, mitigation, and adaptation planning that altogether overlook racial inequalities or dismissing racial inequality’s systemic causes and explains it away by attributing racial disparities to non-racial causes.
3) Social Vulnerability~ the characteristics of a person or group in terms of their capacity to anticipate, cope with, and resist and recover from the impact of a natural hazard
It was interesting to read about all the analyses of resilience and adaptation policies, techniques, and general ideas. I’ve never really thought about the pros and cons of each and this week’s readings were full to the brim of critiques of both of the trains of thoughts. The “Adaptation To Resilience Planning” article layer out a great case both for and against resilience planning. It is fantastic that resilience planning has a greater community involvement then adaptation planning, however resilience planning still has multiple problems like their allure to address equity and justice issues as well as their failure to address community consequences and multiple scenarios of climate change. Adaptation is more roust but it also has its own problems. The article “Racial Coastal Formation” addressed the problems adaptation has had with POC communities. Adaptation planning is “color-blind” (aka just focuses on the Whites) which is very problematic because it helps perpetuate the slow violence of environmental racism.
Key Words:
1) Resilience~ The capacity of a system to resist or bounce back from a disruption. Systems/integrated approach
2) Color-bind Adaptation~ Vulnerability, mitigation, and adaptation planning that altogether overlook racial inequalities or dismissing racial inequality’s systemic causes and explains it away by attributing racial disparities to non-racial causes.
3) Social Vulnerability~ the characteristics of a person or group in terms of their capacity to anticipate, cope with, and resist and recover from the impact of a natural hazard
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