text: decisions. Ideally, this training should be provided at a local level with local programs, in a way that 
  
  makes it possible to use it on local issues, for the reasons and in the ways discussed in the next 
  
  paragraph. For example, visualization techniques like those used by ABC News to show the effects 
  
  of the March 2011 Japan Earthquake, in which all the user has to do to compare scenes from before 
  
  and after the earthquake is to move a slider, should be routinely used to explain proposals about 
  
  urban planning, zoning and related topics. 