The Cold is A Weapon

January 4, 2023 Cde-Editor Katsfoter 1

Over the 2022 holiday weekend in December, a killing winter storm swept across North America. The death toll currently stands at or above 60 individuals, more than half of them in upstate New York. Power across the worst-affected regions exacerbated the effects of the storm. At its height, the storm left 1.2 million homes and businesses without power. Two-thirds of the U.S. population were under winter warnings or advisories. Overnight temperatures were as low as 9 degrees below zero, and that’s before accounting for wind chill. As always, it is those with the fewest resources and least able to deal with a dire event like this that were most affected.

Satellite image of a denuded Lake Mead

Killing Lake Mead

August 22, 2022 Cde. Sylveste 0

Capitalism is killing North America’s largest artificial freshwater reservoir, threatening over 20,000,000 people — with disproportionate ramifications for Indigenous communities.