David Ropeik - Why We're Struggling with Society's Complex Challenges

Consultant David Ropeik is the author of How Risky Is It, Really? and a former Director of Communications for the Center for Risk Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health. 

As part of ISF’s RISK series, he explains to Saira Shah how the challenges we face in the modern world are far more challenging than those from our evolutionary past – and how the wiring of the brain ensures that we’re ‘set up’ to react ‘emotionally more and with reason less.’