Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

As I'm recording this, people in Houston are still struggling to survive Hurricane Harvey,

and a realistic estimate of the number killed won't be possible to make until floodwaters subside.

If it weren't for the first responders in a flotilla of volunteers rescuing people trapped in their homes and vehicles.

What will no doubt be a grisly death toll would surely be much higher.

It's in a crisis like this that we see humanity at its best and also destructive

fossil-fueled capitalism at its worst. Today we're going to talk about Harvey and on Tuesday I'll be airing my

interview on climate change with environmental reporter Kate Arinoff. The

Tuesday after that I'll have a special episode about the history and reality of the city of Houston with historian Tawana Stepto and environmental justice legend Robert Bullard.

A quick aside, as you have no doubt heard me say before in recent weeks, we need your support

to keep the second weekly episode up and running.

So please, if you're a regular listener who hasn't

done so yet, press pause and go to patreon.com slash the dig. That's

P-A-T-R-E-O-N-D-C-T-T-R-E-O-N-T-T-E-O-N and make a contribution. Also, this week I want to ask you to make a donation to Houston.

There are a lot of great operations running on the ground,

but I'm going to suggest that you donate to the Houston Coalition for the Homeless.

You can do that at homeless Houston.org slash take hyphen action

action slash donate

that's homeless Houston dot org

slash take hyphen action

slash donate

I'll put that you URL in the show notes. Emily Atkin, welcome to the dig.

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