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Texas Floods Remind Us That Neither Mother Nature Nor Human Nature Can Be Tamed

The catastrophe proves that today’s most advanced civilizations respond to fear the same way people did during the Bronze Age.

A Sheriff's deputy combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic, July 5, 2025.
A Sheriff's deputy combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic, July 5, 2025. AP/Julio Cortez
REBECCA SUGAR

REBECCA SUGAR

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