GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

When Nature Strikes, We Nurture Our Own

Sep 20, 2017 | 08:01 GMT

A woman tries to recover items from her flooded home in Port Arthur, Texas, in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

A woman tries to recover items from her flooded home in Port Arthur, Texas, in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. But as nature bruised and buffeted the U.S. mainland, natural and human disasters struck elsewhere in the world.

(EMILY KASK/AFP/Getty Images)

Most societies pay less attention to global events when they face crises at home. But this understandable tendency creates an environment ripe for disaster....

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