Everyone in Iceland knows or should know that they live on a live volcano.
Some perhaps even many Icelanders , chose to be like Americans and especially Chinese, who buy property and then live within the flood plain.” It’s ok because no one can remember a flood here. “
So, they do not prepare.
There’s a lot of that, unfortunately.
You’re right.
Iceland, however, given its demographics and economy is particularly screwed when everyone is asleep at the switch.
Both the government and the citizenry need a boot up the bum.