Jonathan M. Katz
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“[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the opposite occurs: In the earthquake and fire of 1906, Jack London observed: "never, in all San Francisco's history, were her people so kind and courteous as on this night of terror." "We did not panic. We coped," a British psychiatrist recalled after the July 7, 2005, London subway bombings. We often assume that such humanity among survivors, what author Rebecca Solnit has called "a paradise built in hell," is an exception after catastrophes, specific to a particular culture or place. In fact, it is the rule.”
― The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
― The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
“A March 2010 Fox News poll would find that more than half of U.S. registered voters donated to Haiti’s relief.”
― The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
― The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
“The world spent more than $5.2 billion on the emergency relief effort; private donations reached $1.4 billion in the United States alone.1 Thousands of doctors and nurses performed lifesaving surgeries.”
― The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
― The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
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“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country






































