Preventing catastrophic risks by mitigating sub-catastrophic ones

Preventing catastrophic risks by mitigating sub-catastrophic ones

Doing Good Better

14/11/2017 3:48PM

Episode Synopsis "Preventing catastrophic risks by mitigating sub-catastrophic ones"

Many of the catastrophic are likely to result from the failure to control much smaller events, which then grow so large that they do become catastrophic. On this episode, Professor Marc Lipsitch describes examples from infectious diseases and suggests implications for the allocation of our attention, effort and funds.

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