James Laughlin and Raf Manji discuss New Zealand's Alpine Fault, which ruptures roughly every 300 years and is 30 to 40 years overdue. Laughlin says the scale is overwhelming for individuals and calls for leadership and collective action. Manji emphasizes disaster preparedness and building resilient systems.
The Alpine fault. And I understood from all the research that it goes off every 300 years. And there's proof of that. We're about 30 to 40 years past the due date of it going off. So I'm thinking, I can't deal with that all myself to think about it overwhelms. So I'm thinking, okay, we need leadership here. We need people working together in this whole idea of being this civic responsibility. So, as the leader of the Opportunities party, what do you think we should be considering? How do you think we should respond? Oh, my gosh.
I think, you know, going back to what you said, that it's almost too big for people to think about. And I think one of our challenges as humans is that preparing for stuff. So essentially, I'd say disaster preparedness is absolutely critical. Building resilient systems that can withstand shocks, preparing for a community wide response.
