{"id":5405,"date":"2015-02-07T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T00:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2015-02-07T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T00:41:10","slug":"we-cant-have-resilience-without-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5405","title":{"rendered":"We can\u2019t have resilience without justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"lead-article-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/politics\/we-cant-have-resilience-without-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\">We can\u2019t have resilience without\u00a0justice<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. John Crawford III. Levar Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Their deaths \u2014 and those of too many others \u2014 illuminate the ghastly toll of racism and impunity. It\u2019s a toll we can measure in lives lost, and in communities seared by violence.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s a casualty you might have missed:\u00a0<em>trust.\u00a0<\/em>When people feel unfairly targeted by the police, when good cops fear reprisal from angry communities, trust \u2014 the invisible thread that holds livable communities together \u2014 unravels.<\/p>\n<p>If we are going to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/article\/is-resilience-the-new-sustainababble\/\">get real about resilience<\/a>\u00a0in an age of climate change and other large-scale disruptions, trust looms large.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it. If people don\u2019t trust the authorities, will they pay attention when it\u2019s time to evacuate? Will first responders venture into communities of color to rescue the most vulnerable? Will people from different backgrounds and neighborhoods join hands to rebuild?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just about climate-related disaster, either. If an epidemic is raging, will sick people remain quarantined, or will they flee and infect others? (That\u2019s what\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/2014\/10\/ebola-virus-epidemic-containment\">has happened during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa<\/a>, where people\u2019s reasons to distrust the authorities could fill an encyclopedia.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can\u2019t have resilience without\u00a0justice Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. John Crawford III. Levar Jones. Their deaths \u2014 and those of too many others \u2014 illuminate the ghastly toll of racism and impunity. It\u2019s a toll we can measure in lives lost, and in communities seared by violence. But here\u2019s a casualty you might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[141,150,3316,1383,607,680,1266,815],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-climate-change","tag-collapse","tag-disaster","tag-justice","tag-pandemic","tag-resilience","tag-social-collapse","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5406,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}