Resilience and the Unknown

The unknown is one of the biggest challenges to resilience. When we know what to expect, we can plan for it. If you listen to the people of Louisiana talk about the oil spill, they will tell you that for many of them, it is much more difficult than a hurricane like Katrina. When the storm was over, it was over. People knew what they had to do. They had been through other storms. They could file their insurance claims and rebuild their houses and go back to fishing, etc. With the oil spill in the Gulf, no one knows exactly what the final damage will be. Will the fishing industry and the tourist business be destroyed? Will people ever be able to get their lives back to “normal”? When will all of this end?


Ron Breazeale, Ph.D.
Author, Duct Tape Isn’t Enough
www.reachinghome.com