I found a news story that didn’t make much of a splash. A professor of disaster planning at Tohoku University in Japan commented recently that research shows “it takes about three generations of people to forget.” Professor Fumihiko Imamura was referring to the communities affected by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami earlier this spring. After three generations, people forget or lose track of … [Read more...]
Japan’s Disaster
March 18, 2011 by
I debated and debated about building one of my videos from the recent and current disaster in Japan. You probably have received it by now, so you know the outcome--I did it. My hope is that the video doesn't come off as exploitative or some version of know-it-all, armchair quarterbacking. I do think the point is worthwhile about the scale of the 1721 smallpox epidemic overlaid on our current … [Read more...]
