The Cost of Inaction

Stephanie Coontz: It's virtually impossible to assign probabilities to any of this stuff. She says as an individual, you look at the range of potential outcomes and try to see if it is possible or not. As long as the cost is appropriate, she says, you owe it to yourself to prepare for it. "I snapped my fingers and all the death fluid i te united states disappeared like i was a genie," coontz said.