You’ve heard of predictable accidents
Maybe also Perrow normal accidents: 2 predictable events combining in an unpredictable disaster in a single complex system, like a nuclear plant
Now I give you: Curtis-Perrow hypernormal accidents. Systems of systems in a failure cascade.
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California is unable to fight record wildfires because the crews of incarcerated men they pay $5 a day to fight fires are locked down in a prison system overrun by COVID. Three disastrous failures – environmental, moral, and epidemiological – colliding. buff.ly/2BGlEWZ
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