Do we need women to respond to natural disasters?

Over the past few weeks, many news stories have decreed Elon Musk’s efforts as head of the government’s efficiency department to overthrow the US government. I even saw a story about FEMA’s proposed dissolution, the government agency determined to respond to natural disasters.

This proposal was faced with immediate response by Republican lawmakers – likely because the exposure of deep red states to extreme weather makes them leading beneficiaries of federal relief of disaster. Initially I agreed that the murder of Fema was crazy.

Cleaning the new administration for all the mention of “climate change” from government websites does not change that we are living in a world after climate. As I mentioned in a recent article about LA fires, our concentration as a society now should invest in climate adaptation strategies. Sadly, one aspect of adaptation has increased disaster relief, given that climate change has made the natural disasters we have faced at 21^vase Century essentially more frequent and intense than that of 20^Th century

This called for a recent conversation with Natalie Bogwalker, founder of Wild Awning, a school in North West Carolina that specializes in teaching women and the ability to build small homes.

I first learned about the wild abundance when I reviewed a call for farms, which contains the story of Mrs. Bogwalker in a chapter. Bogwalker was ready to enter a traditional career at the Academy when a nearly-fat car accident made her rethink her goal in life. She moved to the North Carolina Mountains to practice regenerative skills and primitive skills, learning carpentry and building her home from scratch.

In 2009, her passion for living a life -related life made her start the wild abundance, one of 2% of all enterprises owned by women who generate $ 1 million or more in annual income. She has learned self-confidence skills against over 50,000 students on her campus and online.

Answer the wild abundance to Hellenic, one of the worst natural disasters to hit in North Carolina

At the end of September 2024, the Hellenic hurricane left a destruction attack from the Bay Coast to the Atlantic Ocean, through the North West Carolina. Its impact was immediate and profound: over 230 lives were lost, entire neighborhoods were reduced to the waste fields that stretched for miles, and direct damage exceeded $ 50 billion, making Hellenic one of the most expensive storms in US history.

Through all this, the campus of wild abundance, located in a beautiful, wooded area, was uncertain. Bogwalker knew enough about the resistance to place its buildings away from the trees, so no one was crushed; Its garden too was created to avoid washing from strong rains and continued to produce vegetables as if Hurricane had been just a concern.

Bogwalker’s neighbors in Barnardsville nearby, however, were not so lucky. Roads and bridges were left out, debris from overflowing rivers opened a large hole to drive a car through a local restaurant, and flood waters carried countless houses and trailers all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.

Bogwalker and her team in Wild abundance appeared in action, building small houses for free displaced residents. Wild abundance focuses on the construction of small “shells” of the house which has been completed and adapted either by students or their target residents. Storm victims many prefer small -built female coupon houses for local motel rooms. (Bogwalker offers small homework in her school.)

Bogwalker took an early role of leadership in an expressive organization called AID Mutual Barnarsville. Before volunteers began to flow from other parts of the country, local residents gathered resources to provide food and need for most hit residents. Along with the coordination of repairs and the supply of food, water and medicines for the victims, they provided lunches to hundreds of volunteers and difficulty hit. The owner of an old fire station allows the group to use the building for free.

With washed roads and impassable bridges, Barnardsville residents had already cleaned hundreds of trees from the roads, distributed food and medicine, created a first aid clinic and a food distribution center, and distributed generators on energy rescue equipment before the first female teams could reach their village. A few days after mutual aid Barnarsville began in action, other groups of the community undertook the local community center and elementary school, the distribution of food, clothing and other essences.

There is a lesson for us in this drawing, a similar to what I offered when discussing food resistance. To live well in our new world, we need to form strongest communities focused on growing local food, protecting local businesses and looking for our neighbors.

Natural disasters are inevitable in our world after climate

We are living in a new and more dangerous world. Neither the inhabitants of the Palisada of the Pacific nor those of a rural trailer park are immune to the effects of climate change.

I believe that the rhythm at which major natural disasters are happening will eventually overcome the ability of our system to ensure centralized relief. This sad milestone will only come sooner after the destroyed ball of Elon Musk Cracks the foundations of the administrative state.

Instead of defensive women, why not think of better ways to provide this service already needed and soon to be more needed? Instead of thinking about facilitating disaster from a paradigm of the industrial revolution, where command and control are centralized, we must focus on the sustainability of the community level.

Local female teams will form a network with other teams in their region and will be supported by state and multi-state organizations. Circledo around the concentric above the local level would be thinner in terms of staff, with the thinner layer at the federal level. This will increase local sustainability, allow faster and more effective responses when hitting disasters.

Natalie Bogwalker and wild abundance are an exception than a rule, making Barnarsville, North Carolina blessed in a way that many communities are not. When the shocks of natural disasters, citizens will need help. If Fema is not around to secure her and the community’s ability is so low that now, Americans will suffer in a common way in the third world, but it should be unusual in the richest nation in human history.