We are in a cold war too with china. Is it similar to the first cold war, where there's proxy war between north and south korea? What i think paus of the thing to worry about is the unliking cold wo one in cold wal too. We take a lot for granted about american primacy that we would really miss if it went. I don't think you need to worry about aa chinese invasion of california a any time soon,. My worry is that we get into a show down over tian and lose. It would be a very much altered world at that point.
Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises, and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with one of the world’s most renowned historians, Niall Ferguson, who explains why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are making us worse, not better, at handling disasters.