Network effects?

I’d like to call this reading around the network effects, but the pseudo-science of economics has taken that phrase.

I’ve linked a chunky but interesting read from ‘Yale Climate Connections’ below. Interesting takes for the insurance industry and food industry. I’d like to read a similar analysis for the EU. The weather around the Med and Northern Italy has been…spicy this Summer.

When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down? » Yale Climate Connections

Intensifying extreme weather events and an insurance crisis are likely to cause significant economic and political disruption in the U.S. sometime in the next 15 years.

Yale Climate ConnectionsJeff Masters

When looking at the long term strategy for where the Tech industry hopes to go, I’m not sure it’s taking everything into account. It’s all going to compete for water and stable power (electricity).

I do think efficiency and dispersed risk is going to be key long term. But there’s lots of eggs being put in a small number of baskets.

Great quote in the article from E. O. Wilson of Harvard:

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”

Nice and dramatic. I’m not as eloquent. I just think sometimes we don’t look far enough ahead or too wide across.