We are biased to do nothing. Amanda Ripley, American journalist and author of "The Unthinkable", explains how our "normalcy bias" can lead us to ignore disaster even when we are in the midst of it. | Big Think

Normalcy Bias Is America’s Biggest Threat Most people think danger announces itself with alarms and headlines. The truth is the opposite. Real disasters show up quietly. They build slow… then arrive all at once… and most people are caught completely unprepared because they believed tomorrow would look exactly like today. That mindset has a name. It is called normalcy bias. And it is the most dangerous lie people tell themselves. Normalcy bias is what made people stay in their homes before Katrin