** Twenty Years Later: How America's "Memory Hole" Strategy Actually Worked
** In 2025, Washington killed funding for the EM-DAT disaster database. Today, as the third Sahel megafire rages and Luna Colony evacuates again, we're finally seeing the genius of institutional amnesia in action.
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Twenty years ago, when the Americans pulled the plug on EM-DAT funding, the academic world screamed bloody murder. How dare they erase humanity's catastrophe memory? How could we learn from disasters without data?
Oh, sweet summer children of 2024. They thought institutional memory was supposed to help us.
Fast-forward to today's holo-briefing from Emergency Coordinator Chen Wei-Lin as she announces the "routine temporary relocation" of Luna's Southern Crater settlement—the fourth this yea