How the never-ending horrors can guide us to a brighter future

In moments of catastrophe, humans inevitably turn to mutual aid to stay afloat. Could these moments pave the way to a future that doesn't completely suck?

I’ve written extensively in this publication about Rebecca Solnit’s seminal 2009 book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, but given the fires in LA and Trump’s return to the Presidency, it seems worth revisiting that book’s lessons. I’ll try and summarize the whole book in a single paragraph:

Disaster sociologi…