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Why do people resist practicing Emergency Preparedness? IE, Katrina and any # of Disasters...?

Human beings all over the world won't do preparedness. Much of the third world countries people have no resources to start or even consider it....but whatis the excuse of Americans NOT practicing preparedness?
The attitude that a person cannot prepare for disasters shows not only a self-defeatest tendency toward DEPENDENCY but also a lack of self preservation. As so-called human's, who like to think themselves superior to animals, it doesn't wash that we cannot prepare as much as possible so that we can at the least, hedge our bets to survive. Do not think for one second that humankind cannot go extinct. Archeology and history proves differently..

Public Comments

1. Because most people think that stuff like that "ONLY HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE!" But where-ever you live there is storms or something that can get you. I agree with you-most folks don't want to think about the bad things in life!

2. Democracy! no one is answerable to no one. Ask them and they say ... none of your business.

3. I live in a safe zone.

4. First of all, who made anyone the all knowing expert on mega disaster?

There is no one. You just cannot prepare for things like Katrina or 9-11 or that tsunami.

What would you have in mind? OK everyone we are going to shut down the entire city and have a mass evacuation drill.
Ready GO !

It just would not work.

Jerry