Terrorism, climate change, and the hubris of risk analysis

image from api.theweek.comPascal-Emmanuel Gobry, had a very good article in The Week and makes a few excellent points. Here’s a couple:

"…The risk of terrorism can be managed, if we just defeat every water bottle that gets near a plane. The risk of climate change can be managed, if only we put forward a clever-enough carbon-trading scheme."

"Those things may or may not be true. But we will never be able to make rational decisions about them if we don't first confront our psychological urge to want to control and manage every problem."

Read the entire article here…

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