
567: Marketecture
Typhoon Haiyan Geopolitics and Climate Change Narratives
The humanitarian response to the typhoon in the Philippines is analyzed as a strategic military maneuver involving the USS George Washington and assets from Japan, Australia, and China. Reports surface of local Filipino officials repackaging aid for political credit. The event is being leveraged at the COP19 conference in Warsaw to push for climate change compensation, despite historical precedents of similar storms being blamed on global cooling in the 1970s.


