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The role of politics in natural disasters

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61% Informative

Julian Zelizer says we are living in an era of extreme weather that requires new language, understanding and policy.

Zelizer: Hurricanes, for example, are now saturating flood events with death and wreckage hundreds upon hundreds of miles from original point of landfall .

He says the federal government now uses new terms to describe weather catastrophes: slow onset. That's a drought or rising sea levels. Another compound disasters. And then there's cascading events, mud slides.

VR Score

72

Informative language

73

Neutral language

47

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

49

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

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