Continuing
with our following of the Calgary Floods, today we’re going to talk about
ignoring the past.
Now,
I’m really into history but I’ve gotta say, if people looked at history more
closely and heeded it a bit better, a lot of modern disasters wouldn’t occur.
Now, it’s easy to say. Unfortunately, a lot of historians are just academics
and most people aren’t historians. Awkward, huh,
Apparently,
where the floods occurred where generally flood plains, places where people
knew the risks of flooding were greater. It’d happened in the past. Yet, for
one reason or another, people ignore these warnings, say, ‘it wouldn’t happen
to me’. Of course, all it does it turn into a game of Russian Roulette. And
eventually somebody gets shot.
Now,
it doesn’t always solve all the problems of the world, but do some research on
what you’re heading into. It never hurts and, just possibly, you can see what
didn’t work for somebody else in the past and change it so you don’t make a
similar mistake.
After
all, nothing’s more demeaning that getting screwed and then being told when
you’re in hospital that you should’ve known because exactly the same thing
happened thirty years earlier.
Talk
to you next week,
Alex H.
