Emergency Planning

MARCH 3, 2025

Nowhere is this more true than in the gradual conversion of social media from a source of community cohesion and a means of informing oneself to a purveyor of "alternative facts" and unscientific fantasy, a "manufactured reality" that people nevertheless believe. The goal is ever receding.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2

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Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

At a lesser scale, sabotage, targeted assassination, cyber attacks and political interference through social media are increasingly capable of causing runaway chains of adverse consequences. One of the UK's senior and most accomplished emergency planners recently remarked that "“our societal resilience is the lowest I have ever perceived”.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Myth 16: The mass media create an accurate picture of the disasters on which they report. Myth 16: The mass media create an accurate picture of the disasters on which they report.

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