More on the book Doom
There is a strong wind outside my house that I can hear clearly now. It is understandable why people in the past believed in ghosts. It sounds like they are out there.
Anyway, about Niall Ferguson’s new book: it is clearly professionally edited and organized. Here is the summary of the last chapter: “We have no way of knowing what the next disaster will be. Our modest goal should be to make our societies and political systems more resilient — and ideally antifragile — than they currently are.”
Of course, Ferguson’s book requires deeper digging to better understand, but I think one of his main points is that human error plays a large role in human damage from natural disasters whether Covid-19 or something else. My Dad, who was a good federal government lawyer, had a joke from the office that “we are here from Washington, DC, and want to help.” Usually, authorities do help but not always.