Lawfare Archive: Niall Ferguson on Catastrophes and How to Manage Them

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🗓️ 25 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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From May 4, 2021: 2020 was a remarkable year in so many ways, not least of which was the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects. Why did so many countries bungle their responses to it so badly? And what should their leaders have learned from earlier disasters and the pathologies clearly visible in the responses of their predecessors to them?

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of more than a dozen books, including, most recently, "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe." David Priess sat down with Niall to discuss everything from earthquake zones, to viruses, to world wars, all with a mind to how our political and social structures have or have not adapted to the certainty of continued crises.

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1:21.8	For 1000 people died and at least 3000 were injured in an earthquake that struck eastern
1:27.3	Afghanistan Wednesday, the deadliest to hit the country in two decades.
1:32.4	This was one of a number of natural disasters around the world this week.
1:37.0	Devastating floods claimed lives and displaced communities in India, Bangladesh and southern
1:43.5	China.
1:44.9	While record heat waves reached a high of 104 degrees Fahrenheit in northern China, in light
1:51.2	of these catastrophic events, I picked an episode from May 4th, 2021 where David Priests sat
1:58.1	down with Nile Ferguson to discuss the politics of catastrophe and government responses to crises
2:05.0	ranging from earthquakes to pandemics.
2:19.2	I'm David Priests and this is the LawFair podcast, May 4th, 2021.
2:25.8	2020 was a remarkable year in so many ways, not least of which was the COVID-19 pandemic
2:33.0	and its effects.
2:35.2	Why did so many countries bongo their responses to it so badly and what should their leaders
2:40.9	have learned from earlier disasters and the pathologies clearly visible in the responses
2:47.0	of their predecessors to them?
2:50.2	Nile Ferguson is the Millbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
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