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terrorism is scarier. it's unpredictable to the masses with no warning sign. it has people who commit. a person to put blame on and a theoretical ability to pre
by stevehawk 6y ago
terrorism is scarier. it's unpredictable to the masses with no warning sign. it has people who commit. a person to put blame on and a theoretical ability to prevent it.
weather is just weather. we just blame God or "it happens" regardless of how bad it is. and most can be evacuated if we dont wait to the last minute to do it. we treat them like they're already mitigated.
- ascagnel_ 6y ago> weather is just weather. we just blame God or "it happens" regardless of how bad it is. and most can be evacuated if we dont wait to the last minute to do it. we treat them like they're already mitigated. Kinda? The effects of extreme weather can be mitigated (eg: don't build on flood plains), but we're seeing increasing cases where mitigation efforts are ignored and the adverse effects of that (ie: Hurricane Harvey in 2017, where neighborhoods in Houston that had been built on top of flood plains were inundated by storm surge). Mitigation is almost always cheaper than recovery. While you can definitely mitigate some elements of terrorism (eg: remove cases where radicalization is likely), you can't mitigate it anywhere near as well as weather effects.
- philwelch 6y agoFEMA is also not responsible for the civil engineering of Houston (or New Orleans, for that matter). They’re in charge of managing emergencies, not preventing them.
- stevehawk 6y agoyes but this is isnt actually about disaster response, it's about politics and governing, which unfortunately means its emotional and not logical.