We miss the point that the trauma is only within the body and the life of the individual person and what I’m worried about is the trauma has been experienced by the earth itself. There is a risk associated with place — places that are abandoned, places that are physically destroyed, places that don’t have basic infrastructure. … This was greatly exacerbated by the tornado. Unless we pay serious attention to that, … we will create communities at a higher risk for violence and if we continue to blame people, we will simply see an increase in carceral force and we will be overwhelmed in our social, mental and clinical care environments because we will keep trying to intervene at the individual, personal level. This is a communal reality … and we need to treat it as such.

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