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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.

Whole of community.

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The failure of Microsoft Windows IT based systems as a result of a third part software update from Cloudstrike serves as a telling tale of preparedness. Who has been affected, to what degree and how is their recovery planning rolling out?
Preparedness is the set of cognitive decisions and physical actions undertaken in times of peace that facilitate navigating chaos.
We live in a modern, technologically enabled inter-connected society, facilitated by the provision of critical infrastructure. This normally occurs below our radar with scant consideration, until it is no longer available. Your preparedness is correlated with your exposure to and dependancy on the sectors of critical infrastructure. Adapt, learn and strategize.

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To define a prepper we need a set of measurable variables, ones that should be grounded in evidence, or at the least be attributable to a known theoretical framework. The later is our pathway to the definition. Our research has led us away from personal and subjective announcements to an evolving framework. We begin with the fact that we live in a technologically enabled, interconnected modern society, where over time, at the macro level residents have traded responsibility for the provision of services to an external agency for renumeration. We have decided not to be responsible to build our own houses, we ask a contractor to do so and then we provide payment. In the past, our ancestors all build their own houses and rebuilt them after disasters.

Join us for a great discussion on the importance of definitions, providing criteria for membership and how to codify different elements of society.

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Traditional preparedness encompasses navigating incidents related to natural events, be that storms, earthquakes, floods or other natural hazards. This is the initial 20% of preparedness, once we consider economic, political, cultural and familial events, we discuss the next 80%.
Economic pressures include high inflation, interest rates, rents, unemployment and a host of influences that are beyond your control, but have an impact on how you choose to live your life.
How do you include economic preparedness into your family plan?
What are the considerations? What is a pivot plan?
When you're fired tomorrow, how do you intend to earn your next cheque?

Preparedness is grounded in personal responsibility, it is not the government's role to pay your bills when you get fired or retire, that's your job.

So how do we do that?

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Season ten was our focus on practical preparedness, translating ideas, theories and concepts to physical and cognitive actions that will enable you to rock an credible life, while insulated from exogenous shock.
From community preparedness, to designing a simple life, to navigating political chaos, preparedness creates the conditions for you and your family to pursue your dreams, despite the chaotic world around you. Whether that be economic shock, elections, natural disasters, familial struggles - personal responsibility is the foundation.
Season ten was the most popular, narrowly exceeding season eight in download totals.
Season eleven will be epic, stay tuned.

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In times of struggle and strife, humans turn to trusted sources for information and ideas that help them make informed decisions. Trust is earned, not anointed and is built through providing value and truthful communications. We know that trust in government is a plurality and trending down. The pandemic created a divide in the public, many of whom look for the hidden intent and plan behind government instructions, vice taking them as educated and trusted advice.
Emergency management needs to build trust with the population, in advance of events, they simply cannot assume that residents will listen simply because of a position, title or agency.
A trusting population will adhere to advice and seek out counsel from the appropriate agencies in times of crisis.

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