As collective memory fades, so will our ability to prepare for the next pandemic
- Written by Sean Donahue, PhD Candidate in Philosophy, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
It takes roughly 90 years for the living memory of an event to disappear.Anurag Papolu/The Conversation via AP ImagesJust below the Japanese village of Aneyoshi, there’s a stone carved with a warning: “Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.”
Placed there after a tsunami devastated...
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