Arrow-right Camera
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Down To Earth

Photo of the decade

Yes, strangely enough, this is our pick. In 2005, Katrina was a tipping point. It represents a President seeing the other America. Perhaps he is thinking how did we get here? For climate change, for poverty--- it reminds us of the Pogo line, “we have met the enemy and he is us.” It’s the disconnected view from the window. “It must be twice as bad on ground,” Bush said at that moment. Twice? The decade is all over but the shouting and the tragedy.



Down To Earth

The DTE blog is committed to reporting and sharing environmental news and sustainability information from across the Inland Northwest.