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179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

The Michael Shermer Show

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The US's Sewers Crisis

i think one has to beware of the domino theory, because that was an erroneous view. In fact, the loss of southviet nam turned out, strategically, not to matter a whole lot. i feel this is more like,. you know, america's sewers crisis, where youre, you're suddenly seen to be ah, no longer number one. And that has all kinds of cascading con quences and consequences in the rest of the world.

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