SCOUT· 51%44m·2026-09-17·ScienceThe Weaponisation of Disaster: Inside the New Security Thinking
This summer, extreme heat killed tens of thousands of people across Europe. The number killed by terrorism was, as our guest puts it, very very small. So why are the institutions built to keep people safe still organised almost entirely around the second one? Erin Sikorsky is the Director of the Center for Climate and…
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