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We thought the danger was melting water pooling in glacial lakes. We were wrong. When the front face of a Himalayan glacier sheared off and swallowed a valley in debris, it exposed a terrifying transboundary blind spot: the mountain itself is collapsing, and there is no early warning system for a wall of ice.
When a 5.3 earthquake hit Suez, Egypt, the internet’s first instinct was to ask: “When was the last one?” That question feels like curiosity, but it’s actually a cognitive trap. Our brains desperately seek patterns in unpredictable events, and the availability heuristic distorts our sense of risk — making us overestimate gaps and underestimate danger. The result? Complacency where preparedness should be.