5 Quotes by Gordon McBean

We can't actually stop hurricanes or tsunamis or other extremes of nature. But ... we can avoid a lot of unnecessary human and economic losses.

We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influence policy from the start.

Scientists have to get involved with the policy-making community right from the beginning and try to understand what the constraints on policy-making are.

It's time to change the mind-set that natural disasters are inevitable.

It's time to change the mindset of governments, who tend to plan too little for natural disasters.