Nick Farr
Nick Farr (He/Him) is a Certified Public Accountant based in Michigan, USA. Prior to the birth of his child, he assisted as a volunteer responder in a variety of disasters around the world, most recently during the Mexico City earthquake in 2017. He has previously served as an emcee, organizer and catalyst for various different hacker and maker community efforts in Europe and the Americas.
Session
Disasters are not as discrete as they appear to be. Whether fire or flood, it's difficult to separate out discrete events from climate change and the overall global disasters in the political, economic and social realms. Those who respond to disasters around the world find themselves thinking of disasters not as discrete events but as waypoints on a single, global continuum.
This talk briefly covers the essay "The Long Disaster", a collection of thoughts on gaps that communities can contemplate as they set out to on a path towards resilience against the local impact of global disasters.