シャドーイング練習: Kate Brady | Disasters are Awful: What Comes After Doesn't Have To Be - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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If I asked you to think about a disaster, you could probably bring an image to your head pretty quickly.
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Maybe it's the people huddled under the red sky beach in Gippsland or neighbours rescuing each other in tinnies in Lismore.
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We all know the movies, the stories of triumph and tragedy
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where the hero has to come and save us all before the credits roll
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and there's a whole lot of debris to clean up.
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Most people think the worst part of disasters is that bad day.
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The day of the fire, the earthquake or the storm.
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I mean that's where the movie finishes right and for some people it is.
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Their lives are devastated in a way that there won't be anything worse than that bad day but for most people
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that bad day won't be the hardest part of the disaster for many people who experience a disaster
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that bad day is something
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that they cope with really really well all things considered it might be a very very hard experience
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but they manage as best they can for many people the things
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that come after the disaster are the hardest part and we make them much harder than they need to be.
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I want to tell you about a woman who I worked with a couple of years ago after a bushfire.
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Let's call her Sam.
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Sam had lived in her community for about 10 years.
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She was a teacher at the school.
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She had three small children.
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When I met her, she'd lost her home in a bushfire and she was living in a caravan on her property.
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It was about three or four weeks after the fire
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and she showed me a notepad
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that had a really long list on it of all the places that she needed to call to get things replaced.
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Passport, Medicare card, driver's license, kid's birth certificate, parenting order from the family court, all of the things.
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Those services could replace them all but for every single one she had to call, she had to wait on hold,
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she had to be transferred between departments and then she had to tell her story again and again.
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In every single instance, she was asked to provide alternate forms of ID.
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She then had to explain again and again why she no longer had any and then fill in more forms.
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That sounds horrendous enough, right?
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Like no one likes being on those calls.
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But she was having to do it in a noisy recovery centre
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because phone reception hadn't been restored back out at her property and she'd lost her computer in the fire.
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She also had her three small kids with her.
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They They were understandably very shaken, but they wanted to be on her or near her all of the time.
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But if she didn't get the ID replaced, she couldn't apply for the other services and aid
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that were there in the timeframe that they were going to be available for.
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She told me
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that it was like jamming every single interaction she'd had with
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any bureaucracy over the last decade into the space of a couple of days.
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All at a time where she'd lost her home and everything in it.
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She was finding it really hard to concentrate.
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It was hot and sweaty and noisy.
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The kids wouldn't go to anyone else.
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No one's sleeping well.
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We'll come back to Sam in a moment.
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One of the oddly beautiful things about the first few days after a disaster is how good we are.
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We help, not just people in communities helping each other, but those broader systems that manage to flex and adapt because of the situation at hand.
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Banks, telcos, insurance companies, government departments, they temporarily open up special hotlines, they pull staff off their regular jobs,
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and they help those people navigate those tangled systems that they need to make their way through.
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But as the weeks and months roll on, business as usual comes back into play.
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We know that disasters affect just about every single facet of our lives.
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They affect our health, our relationships, they affect our homes, our communities,
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our education, our culture, our finances, our sense of safety.
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They impact how we view the world.
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And even though researchers and agencies might pull these impacts apart, if you've been affected, you don't feel these impacts separately.
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All of these different impacts intersect and then they compound upon each other.
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We also know that disasters and effects don't impact people equally.
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While disasters send a shock through all of the systems that we live in, We also know that they often amplify what was there before.
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So people who are experiencing systemic disadvantage before a disaster often then have that disadvantage amplified after a disaster.
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We know that recovering from disasters takes a really long time.
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This isn't something that's measured in days or weeks, it's measured in years or decades.
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And it's not usually a straightforward process.
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This often means that there is a disconnect
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when support is in its heaviest supply those first days
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or weeks after an event compared to when needs might arise years later.
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It also means that there's often a mismatch in between when officials make big quick announcements compared to more thoughtful,
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deliberate, community-based decisions that can take all of that complexity that's going on into account.
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Once business as usual processes have come back into play we then carve up all of the areas of impact.
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Support after disasters varies wildly in Australia depending on the event that's happened but if a recovery system is activated
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different organisations then tasked with providing support in those silos.
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Housing, education, financial aid, mental health support.
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Each of those different avenues use different processes.
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Some of them use really community-centred approaches.
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Most of them don't.
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If you've been affected by a disaster, you don't have the luxury of putting all of those different impacts into different boxes.
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You have to deal with all of them, often together.
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So let's go back to Sam.
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It's now a few months after the fires, she and her kids are still living in that caravan.
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But by then it's winter and it's really rainy.
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The ground was just mud constantly because all the trees and the undergrowth had been burnt.
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There's no way to get the clothes dry in the caravan, it's really hard to cook in cramped conditions with little kids around and the kids just keep getting sick.
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The child care centre also burnt down in the fires
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and no decision about rebuilding had been made yet so Sam had to take an extended period of unpaid leave from work.
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Sam was part of an active group of community members who'd
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made plans for some interim childcare in the hall with local volunteers.
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They'd applied for a small amount of the funds available through grants, but they were knocked back because they weren't an incorporated association.
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So they couldn't pay for the insurance they needed, so they couldn't get the hall to use the childcare.
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Speaking of insurance, her insurance company had made an assessment on her home, but she'd started getting into a drawn-out dispute with them
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because they they wouldn't pay for a lot of her household goods or furniture because she couldn't prove she had them,
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because the receipts and the warranties and the photos of them had also been lost in the fires.
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It was also really unclear if there would be a buyback land scheme in her area
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or whether there'd be new fire rebuilding codes that she'd have to follow
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and if she could afford them if she could rebuild.
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Those announcements weren't going to be made for many months still so she was in limbo.
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Sam's mum lived interstate and kept trying to encourage her to move back with her
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which was really tempting but also impossible because to do
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so would have put her in breach of the parenting order
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that she had with her ex so she would have had to go back to court.
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It was really really hard.
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Over the last 25 years research has really grown in the area of disaster recovery.
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We've become much better at documenting some of the experiences and the specific outcomes that people face in the aftermath of disasters.
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But despite this, we still haven't made the experience for people significantly less excruciating after disasters.
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And while we're getting better at understanding the approaches that work better, we often don't implement them.
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We still don't measure holistic outcomes for people who have been affected and we're still duplicating mistakes from previous disaster events.
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We still treat disasters as though they're episodic short-term problems
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that have a straightforward trajectory that we can fix with top-down decisions even though we know that doesn't work.
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The aftermath of disasters doesn't have to be as bad as
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that bad day but currently for lots of of people it's worse.
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And that feels criminal
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because this is preventable we don't have to make it this hard we have all of the things
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that we need to make this work better for people I don't believe
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that anyone has deliberately created an awful system for people to navigate after disasters
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but the failure to do the work to make all of these systems talk to each other is just
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that it's a failure coordinating these different components is unbelievably difficult work to do
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but not doing it doesn't remove the need for it it just pushes it back onto community members like Sam.
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In an ideal world Sam's experience would have been a lot easier in fact it would have been seamless.
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She and her kids might have still gone through the awful days of the fires
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and experienced huge loss and disruption but the experience of the weeks months
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and years after could have been an experience of us showing off the best that we can be.
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If we were really good at this, Sam would have only had to tell her story once
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and then decide if she was okay with her data being shared between the various agencies.
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If she was, she would have only had to provide her information once for
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all of those forms of ID to be reinstated rather than spending countless hours on the phone.
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We would have built on all the accumulated knowledge that we have from previous events,
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to be able to proactively offer Sam and her family things that we could reasonably predict that they might need, all while leaving the control and the decision-making still with her.
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There would have been predictability in the policy environment she was living in.
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Sam wouldn't have been waiting for months about information for buyback schemes
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and rebuilding codes because these decisions wouldn't be made as knee-jerk reactions to big events.
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Sam and other people in her community would have been able to focus their efforts on identifying the things
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that they thought would be most helpful to them and then have the support to make those things happen.
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People can make really good decisions about what will be best for themselves, their families and their communities if they have access to good information.
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And when we don't meet the processes that they need to follow, insanely difficult.
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I can remember hearing that a local leader said after the Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand
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we will not be measured by the kilometres of roads and pipes that we replace here
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we'll be measured by how our people come through this and that should be our focus.
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How do our people come through this?
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Do they come through that bad day more battered
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and worn down for having interacted with the recovery system that was supposed to help them?
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Does it feel like a second disaster?
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Or do they come through it having been able to get
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the support they need to make the decisions to pursue things that are important to them?
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The rate that disasters are coming for us might not be something that we can control anymore,
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but how people experience the aftermath of them can be.
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Disasters are awful, but what comes after doesn't have to be.
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