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Recovery is the poor cousin of emergency management, the ignored friend at the party. They own no lights and sirens, begin to speak when the cameras are gone and are provided with little to offer the stricken public. Those dependant on government assistance to navigate significant disruptions will be prescribed a long and painful experience, loaded with bureaucracy and less than expected benefits. I do not wish that on anyone.

We can do better, we choose not to.

A well constructed family preparedness plan would see the navigation of the recovery process without any notable interaction with the government. They may be of assistance, but not a necessary element of successful recovery from significant loss.

When calamity strikes, there are several lines of defence, similar to a delaying action in the army, the intent is to have multiple strategies to employ, to counter the effects of your opponent. The affected population needs to be made whole. In negotiation and insurance terminology, that means resorted to pre event status, to reconstruct what was lost, figuratively and physically, to reflect a zero visible impact. That is the goal of recovery, the road to that place is a minefield, not necessarily so, but one nonetheless.

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Jasper is but the latest example of the destruction caused by the intersection of a range of human decisions. We build in nature's backyard when fires are an essential part of the ecosystem. We hack the biodiversity of forests to achieve higher yields of profitable species, defeating nature's defence systems agains disease, rot and regulating healthy ecosystems. We choose not to employ known mitigation measures including significant firebreaks, building code regulations, active fuel management near the wild-urban interface and maintain insufficient resources to protect societal value.

These are all human decisions, concisions ones, often made in isolation but collectively, they create an environment where societies lose exceptional value.

We choose not to act, so we lose everything.

We know that the leadership doesn't exist to make the policy changes necessary to mitigate against human decisions, so why not try something new.

If we continue with the status quo, the tally of Jaspers will continue to increase.

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Welcome to election chaos, another day in the interesting and if not amusing world of politics, watching the characters cleverly bend themselves and their message to remain relevant. Whether we're speaking of the change in US Presidential candidates, or the crevices in the European experiment, this week has been very popcorn worthy.
We don't vote for preparedness, so the incentive for politicians to alter the expenditures in government is absent, leaving those responsible in the public sector and in corporations to find strategies that lead to better outcomes. This is a shared reality across the four spheres of society - public, corporate, not for profit and civil society. This requires a shared understanding of the roles each party plays in mitigation and preparedness, To embrace that for each crisis or event, there are four distinct response operations, one for each sector.

Four responses, no one superior, but each recovering their constituent parts of society. So let's gather together, more than just words and show, to begin the cooperation across society, to build resilience together.

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