Haven't read @BretStephensNYT's article (I don't read pseudointellectual NYT). What we said abt climate & precaution
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/ppArXiv2.pdf …pic.twitter.com/sZ00Nqu6pY
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But people can/do perform risk analysis and risk management on those to varying degrees.
@scottadams I'd accept Nuclear war. Pandemics and ISIS are scalable, but we already adress the former quite well. Meteors/Aliens: Bullshit!
I am as unable to calculate risk of AGW as you are of aliens
@ScottAdamsSays Only problem if you do not have enough resources to adress each one. Met/Aliens: low probability, little to do about
Pandemics: most treatment still needed is via negativa: stop wasting penicillin on meat production or regular coughs-->cheap
substituting oil with Wind/solar + E-Cars, heat pumps or hydrogen (raw, or methanized) dries Income sources of ISIS/Saudi-Arabia etc.
also reduces incentive for interventions
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