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"Donald Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to
abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees
everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The
department’s budget is now on the chopping block. But does anyone in the
White House really understand what the Department of Energy actually
does? And what a horrible risk it would be to ignore its extraordinary,
life-or-death responsibilities?"
A deeply troubling long read on how not to manage risk. If we court
disaster, it is often because we would rather bury our heads in the sand
than deal with the fear of very real dangers. Easier to substitute
other fears that we can claim to have easy answers to. Easiest of all
to blame outsiders, and if necessary find or create more outsiders to
carry the blame.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
