A University of Connecticut history professor recently gave a lecture at Colgate in which he claimed there is “no such thing as a natural disaster” — they’re actually “deeply tied to race, class and state policy.”
According to The Colgate-Maroon News, Andy Horowitz told the audience “[d]isasters are not unpredictable attacks or acts of God that arrive without precedent […] their causes and consequences reach across much longer periods of time and space than we commonly imagined.”
The Connecticut State Historian and author of “Katrina: A History, 1915-2015” said “state policies and environmental changes” were responsible for the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005.