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Houser & Urban Planning PhD student @UTSOA, @The_ACSP Board Student Rep, #ATX Planning Commissioner, @HousingWorksATX Board, @POC_ATX leadership he/him
Feb 18, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
Lets be clear on what’s happening here: in the middle of severe snow storms & power outages Texas Republican officials are making a move to bolster the oil/gas industry and strip the state of its renewable energy sources. This is what @NaomiAKlein has called “disaster capitalism” Explaining how this shock doctrine works @NaomiAKlein points out that “free-market” ideologues wait for a disaster & then “when we are psychologically unmoored & physically uprooted, that these artists of the real plunge in their hands and begin their work of remaking the world”