Conclusion
Memory breakdown and increasing vulnerability to disasters

Montesquieu's paradigm of civilization postulates that the more evolved societies are, the more they are able to protect themselves from the consequences of disasters. However, historians' archives and the catastrophic events of recent years tend to prove the contrary. For our predecessors, risk was not an inevitability, but rather a state of expectation leading to the anticipation of a potential crisis. Although empirical, these dispositions of the ancients nonetheless illustrate a memory of conservation based on a group's ability to acquire and develop, through history, the memory of its own survival heritage. More trivially, can historical experience be harnessed to strengthen the capacity of our contemporary societies to absorb the shock of an extreme