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Um...obviously yes? Though I might disagree with some bits like > true resilience also requires genuine public involvement in city planning and decision-makin
by bell-cot 1y ago
Um...obviously yes? Though I might disagree with some bits like
> true resilience also requires genuine public involvement in city planning and decision-making.
- which will be very culture- and situation-dependent.
Related: I've kinda wondered whether the local culture around this month's Central Texas Floods was so broken that the locals really couldn't bootstrap some sort of warning system. (That ain't rocket science: "It's up 15 feet! Call anybody you know downstream, and tell them to start pounding on doors of everybody living close to the river!") Or, is that just not the sort of narrative that my usual news sources want to sell?
- IAmBroom 1y agoI think the problem was more: People running out of burning buildings are unlikely to run next door and warn the neighbors. It's just not in the nature of humans reacting with fear.
- bell-cot 1y agoMaybe I'm old, and admittedly I've never run out of a burning building...but I've heard a lot of stories where that's the very first thing the people did. Also admittedly - the context often included "and tell them to call the Fire Dept.". But I'd say that whether or not one does that goes back to the article's main point - do you see see those neighbors as fellow members of "your" community? Or as unconnected random strangers?
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