{"id":9878,"date":"2020-05-18T06:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2020-05-19T04:17:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:17:09","slug":"forty-years-later-lessons-for-the-pandemic-from-mount-st-helens-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=9878","title":{"rendered":"“Forty Years Later, Lessons for the Pandemic From Mount St. Helens”, The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lawrence Roberts, Opinion, May 18, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

The tensions we now face between science, politics and economics also arose before the country\u2019s most destructive volcanic eruption.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>United Press International<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n
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When I met David A. Johnston, it was on a spring evening, about a month before he would be erased from existence by a gigantic cloud of volcanic ash boiling over him at 300 miles per hour<\/a>. He was coming through the door of a makeshift command center in Vancouver, Wash., the closest city to the graceful snow-capped dome of Mount St. Helens, a volcano that had been dormant for 123 years<\/a>. This was April 1980, and Mr. Johnston, a 30-year-old geologist, was one of the first scientists summoned to monitor new warning signs from the mountain \u2014 shallow earthquakes and periodic bursts of ash and steam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n