Re: Ebola and fragility
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 2:33 pm
@jacob. Good point. I hadn't thought of global warming as the opposite example. I'd like to be told that the sky is falling when it is actually falling.
Your link isn't to the work of military planners. It's a report from a bunch of leftist political hacks.
Every single author is linked to either a progressive think tank, or a former polical appointee. (I admit to guessing with the professors, but there is clear selection bias here)Kurt M. Campbell is CEO and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security and former
deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asia and the Pacific.
Leon Fuerth is a research professor of international affairs at The George Washington University,
and former national security advisor to Vice President Al Gore.
Jay Gulledge, Ph.D., is the senior scientist and program manager for science and impacts at the
Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
Alexander T. J. Lennon is the editor-in-chief of CSIS’s flagship journal, The Washington Quarterly.
J.R. McNeill is a professor of history at Georgetown University.
Derek Mix is a research associate in the CSIS Europe Program.
Peter Ogden is senior national security analyst at the Center for American Progress.
John Podesta is president and CEO of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff
for President Bill Clinton.
Julianne Smith is the director of the CSIS Europe Program and the Initiative for a Renewed
Transatlantic Partnership.
Richard Weitz is a senior fellow and director of program management at Hudson Institute.
R. James Woolsey is a vice president for Booz Allen Hamilton and former director of the CIA.
That doesn't make what they say untrue, but I see no evidence of military planning, or objectivity here. This is speculative fiction with an agenda.
Of course, I live in the PNW, am middle aged, without children, with a certain amount of prep, so I can absorb more effects than most without too much of a hiccup. That may have some influence on my sense of confidence...