Chaos theories: Why are we never prepared for disasters? – Ros Taylor asks Jeff Schlegelmilch
Dec 28, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 1189
Episode description
From pandemics to natural disasters, terror attacks to global warming, it seems the world is becoming more disastrous by the minute – and government responses consistently fall short. Why aren’t we ever prepared?
Ros Taylor speaks to Jeff Schlegelmilch, director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness Director and co-author of Catastrophic Incentives: Why Our Approaches to Disasters Keep Falling Short.
• “The disasters we think about are the photogenic ones… but the ones I worry about are the slower creeping disasters, like drought and extreme heat.” — Jeff Schlegelmilch
•“Intelligence predicted 9/11, it was just missed” – Jeff Schlegelmilch
• “In developing environments, charities are essentially providing government services and subsidising failed states.” – Jeff Schlegelmilch
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Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.
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