Rebecca D. Costa's Blog

In the midst of a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be asking a lot of readers to consider similarities between this emergency and the nuclear disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima; the global subprime mortgage banking meltdown; extreme weather events such as super-typhoons, drought, wildfires and flooding; a disturbing spike in worldwide suicides, and the largest migration of humans in the history of mankind. These events feel separate and distinct in our minds. Yet, from a thirty-thousand-foot level, they have more in common than previously understood. They are threads plucked from the same fabric.