Lass crine: Most people who buy guns never do anything with them. She says they are symbolic and a social signal that i trust authorities, ar i trust the science. We think there's going to be a complete collapse of civic ordernd - but we know it won't happen. Lass Crine: The probability of that happening is wa way lower than we thought.
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.