057 | COVID-19 and the Value of Resilience over Efficiency
Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
English - April 01, 2020 02:40 - 16 minutes - 23.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsScience Health & Fitness anthropocene climatechange globalwarming Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When US President Donald Trump disbanded his country's pandemic response team, he did so because "I don't like having thousands of people around when we don't need them."
That cost-cutting measure could cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and it's a classic example of what happens when we value efficiency over resilience.
What are efficiency and resilience?
Today we draw on the work of Cardiff University Lecturer Paul Nieuwenhuis to find out.