Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.
Sheri FinkOften in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?
Sheri Fink