The Chicago Heat Wave of 1995

Based on the article it states that history was made in Chicago during the summer due to the fact that there was a heat wave, which reached temperatures from 106 degrees to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. This made people all over the city run all air conditioners, fans, and electrical devices to survive, but the negative outcome is that there was a massive power outage, killing many civilians and making the rest suffer. Since morgues were overfilled they rented refrigerated trucks to store dead bodies. All of this suffering had been the unbalance between humanity and the environment. Humans had caused this themselves due to their reactions to nature's punishment. Questions the community could've wondered is "Who are the people who suffered the most?" The answer is that the poorer class people and elderly. Despite the fact that was a power outage, the impoverished didn't even have access to a source of air conditioning, having to face heat every single thing, and the elderly couldn't have a strong resistance against the heat. Additionally, people wondered on how they could help the community, but even though their strategy was to move people to cooler places, it had no lasting affect since they couldn't and probably had no effort in helping, only in getting themselves saved. Despite the fact that it was an environmental conflict, it ended up being a social conflict  die to the fact that the taxes were high on water and electricity. Most of all, due to the impoverished, they swarmed beaches or opened fire hydrants in order to be able to sustain themselves in this temperature, which resulted in a drop in water pressure in all of the neighborhoods.  It shows how government had cared for mostly wealthier people, since wealthier people barely experienced these experiences despite the act they too suffered. This would explain the unbalance and negative side between humans and the environment since it killed many, and left it in devastation.