How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality - anything we've ever learned, thought, or dreamed of - ultimately matter?Īmanda Ripley, an award-winning journalist for Time magazine, set out to discover what lies beyond fear and speculation. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. Today, nine out of 10 Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Explore more videos.It lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyond our ability to see it: the possibility that a tear in the fabric of life could open up without warning, upending a house, a skyscraper, or a civilization. Preptalks are given by subject-matter experts and through leaders to spread new ideas, spark conversation and promote innovative leadership for the issues confronting emergency managers over the next 20 years. Her first book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes-and Why, was described by NPR as “the thinking person’s manual for getting out alive.” Download PrepTalk Materials
She has written feature stories about disasters, education and human behavior for Time magazine, The Atlantic, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Times of London. She explains that unless we have had the experience and/or the training to help us act quickly during moments of great peril, our instinctive response may be the worst possible reaction.Īmanda Ripley is a journalist and senior fellow at the Emerson Collective. In her PrepTalk, Amanda Ripley combines the inspiring stories of disaster survivors with research into how the brain works when confronted with unusual events.
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