Denial is word usually applied to a minority of the population. We have holocaust deniers, AIDS deniers, global warming deniers and so on.<\/p>\n
When it comes to SHTF and End of the World notions, most laypeople and scientists are in denial. While they may accept that evidence from the past has shown how fragile our existence is, and that science suggests that events that have tested the survivability of our species will certainly occur again, the denial covers the near future.<\/p>\n
A good example was Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. Government officials were well aware that such destruction would happen every hundred years or so, but did not make adequate plans for it happening in the near future. They chose to acknowledge the long-term possibility, but denied that it could happen on their watch. Citizens were to blame as well. Despite most locals knowing that such destruction has happened in the past, they chose not to move to another part of the USA, because they were in denial that it could happen in the near future.<\/p>\n
Worldwide we see the same. While some people have no choice (like citizens of Bangladesh or Haiti), many people choose to stay living in a risky location, whereas they could live somewhere else instead. Near the fault lines of California or Wellington, NZ are good examples, as is the coast of Florida. A lesser, but still valid, example is Auckland, NZ, a city built on dormant volcanoes. I am from there, and it never gets discussed. In the back of their minds, people will perhaps think that at the first sign of trouble they will move. Yet that would mean their homes would be near impossible to sell, and of course volcanoes don’t always give warnings.<\/p>\n
Even if Auckland suffered a series of earthquakes, and scientists warned of volcanic eruptions, many citizens would elect to stay put, believing it won’t happen to them.<\/p>\n
A common criticism of 2012 is the end could come any time, and it is ludicrous to suggest it will happen on a certain date or year. Even though they acknowledge it could happen at any time, they still deny it will happen in the near future, and so are never prompted to prepare for the worst.<\/p>\n
Preparations for a global cataclysm has received less funds (publicly or privately) that virtually anything you can spend money on. This is a shame, for it might be the only way our species will save itself from extinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Denial is word usually applied to a minority of the population. We have holocaust deniers, AIDS deniers, global warming deniers and so on.
\nWhen it comes to SHTF and End of the World notions, most laypeople and scientists are in denial. While they may accept that evidence from the past has shown how fragile our existence is, and that science suggests that events that have tested the survivability of our species will certainly occur again, the denial covers the near future.
\nA good example was Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. Government officials were well aware that such destruction would happen every hundred years or so, but did not make adequate plans for it happening in the near future. They chose to acknowledge the long-term possibility, but denied that it could happen on their watch. Citizens were to blame as well. Despite most locals knowing that such destruction has happened in the past, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-catastrophes","tag-denial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}