Hurricanes Katrina and Rita created the most expensive disaster,
the largest evacuation, and the third deadliest flood in American
history.
Nobody can control Mother Nature but the world's most advanced
nation could have protected its citizens better. This disaster
revealed the faulty psychological reactions of officials who not
only failed to protect the public from danger in New Orleans, but
lacked effective responses to the calamity. We elect and hire
people who are supposed to protect us from attacks by nature and
enemies. However, they fail us because of their human nature. They
are as imperfect as we are, but we expect them to collect and heed
facts that we cannot know, to prepare for predictable disasters,
and to focus on long-term solutions rather than short-term
fixes.
Engaged in popularity contests, politicians and officials at all
levels did too little about obvious problems. The ugly picture of
poor and mainly black flood victims jolted us with poverty, racism,
and segregation. Leaders must not wait to improve flood protection,
racial inequities, a deteriorating healthcare system, dwindling
resources, and climatic changes until crises occur. This costly
disaster should awaken us to re-examine and change our methods of
selecting politicians and leaders.
"We must change our current leadership by the President,
captains of industry, leaders of government, law enforcement,
healthcare, and the media. We are inundated with self-serving
behaviors from those who loot and shoot to those in power who cast
aspersions and dodge blame." Ken Jacuzzi, business coach/consultant
and author.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!