Stephen Davies - What Is Global Catastrophic Risk?
The Curious Task
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Is the Modern Family System Really Sustainable?
The modern family system is one of the things that has made society more brittle and vulnerable to shocks, i think. It's going to take quite a while to put it back together again. And so that kind of thing makes the impact of what would otherwise be manageable events much, much more severe than they should otherwise be. The global supply chain system we have, in many cases, is simply too complex and too it doesn't have enough redundancy and spare capacity built into it for shock like this.
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