We need to rebuild risk management from the ruins of precaution
Category: Risk School
The Post-COVID-19 Blueprint (Part 3.2): The Seven Key Steps of Risk Management
Of the 7 key steps in risk management, none were applied in the COVID-19 crisis.
The Post-COVID-19 Blueprint (Part 1): How Precaution Failed
Precaution is not a risk management tool. Why it failed to manage COVID-19.
COVID-19: A Failure in Risk Management
10 observations on how risk management failed spectacularly.
The Risk-Monger’s Top Ten Good Things about COVID-19
The coronavirus crisis has shown a marked improvement in our risk management skills.
Trust in the Time of Colic
Has a world without trust led us to endless leaderless protests?
Pascal’s Precautionary Wager: The Logic of Fear
To understand the fear-based precautionary logic, we need to go back to a previous religious doctrine.
Evolutions in Trust, Part 1: Blockchain Trust
Trust in authorities and experts is declining. So how do we trust? By all of us observing and rating everyone and everything.
Seven Reasons the EU’s Use of the Precautionary Principle is Misguided
What is wrong with the precautionary principle? What is right about it?
The Possibilist Principle: How Brussels Became a Hazard-based Activist Playground
How did we ever get to the madness of a hazard-based precautionary policy approach? Through those relentless possibilists.
The importance of trust in our decisions
We cannot support something or someone we don’t trust. As Hillary is finding out, trust is essential.
Generation AIDS
I came of age during the AIDS crisis – we need to understand how that event has shaped the leaders now in power.
