In a Disaster, Who Survives?
Heritage Explains
Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Most advice on how to prepare for a disaster is just plain wrong. On this episode, Jim Carafano explains five attributes an individual should have in order to survive a major disaster.
Read the op-ed: https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/disaster-who-survives
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| 0:00.0 | From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:13.0 | I have to admit, the topic of disaster survival comes up in my house probably more often than |
| 0:22.9 | most. My husband has just a touch of what some people might call a prepper in him. But for better or |
| 0:31.7 | worse, we're also just planners, warriors, always concerned with worst-case scenarios and, well, being prepared. |
| 0:40.3 | I actually have a bag in my office in DC with sneakers, a map, water, and a protein bar |
| 0:46.3 | in case I ever had to make it back to my family and the burbs on foot. |
| 0:51.3 | And in fact, we already had some masks in the house stashed away when the coronavirus |
| 0:57.0 | hit. So my interest was immediately peaked when I saw a Heritage Foundation op-ed explaining the |
| 1:05.3 | type of person who survives a major disaster. In today's episode, we run through the five character traits |
| 1:14.1 | that Jim Carrafano, one of our favorite experts here at Heritage Explains, |
| 1:18.8 | and also vice president of Heritage's Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, |
| 1:24.5 | says you should have if you want to survive a disaster. I have to say this has been |
| 1:29.5 | one of my favorite conversations so far, and I think you're going to love it too. But before we jump in, |
| 1:36.8 | I wanted to let you know about an exciting platform available from Heritage. While we can't |
| 1:41.7 | host events in person right now, Heritage Events live hosts webinars every day on a variety of topics, ranging from ethics during the COVID-19 pandemic to the CARES Act and the economy. |
| 1:54.3 | These webinars are free and you can join right from your home. |
| 1:57.9 | You can find out more by going to heritageitage.org slash events or by checking out |
| 2:02.5 | the link in our show notes. Okay, now on to our discussion. Jim, you started off your op-ed on this |
| 2:09.8 | saying that most of the information out there on how to prepare for a disaster is wrong. What's wrong |
| 2:15.9 | about it? So this is really interesting. A number of years ago, |
| 2:20.4 | I got asked by a website that was starting to do e-books, to do a book. And I said, sure, what do you |
| 2:29.6 | want it on? And they said, the end of the world. |
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