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A General Theory Of Catastrophe — Niall Ferguson

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Climate Change and Overseas Mortality

War has been the great killer after infectious disease, says author. He argues that a limited nuclear war isreally something that will happen at some point. I also think that siberian warfare could end up killing a lot of people by simply causing massive disruption for a decent period of time - and you would be crazy to do it.

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