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What is the big, big picture of the global economy? Is it becoming more fragile? What are the impacts of shocks? What can be done now by forward looking governments, organizations, and individuals? Physicist and dynamic systems thinker David Korowicz shares his thoughts with Aaron Wissner in an exclusive 90-minute interview.
Notes for Viewers:
* If you would like to provide time stamps on what you feel is relevant, please post them into the comments, and they will be added to this description :-)
* Remember that the video speed can be changes up to 2x speed, so if you're already familiar with the ideas shared by David, feel free to listen at high-speed mode
* The video is provided uncut, other than a couple pauses for technical fixes
* If you appeciate content like this, please 1. subscribe, 2. sign up for notifications, 3. comment, 4. like, and 5. share
* For new viewers to these concepts, consider watching previous talks by David, which we've put together into this playlist, mostly from recordings made by Local Future, but from other sources as well
* youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu9390d_J5Mf6XR0aJk2w4TafyFLJiuTQ
* David's reference to the pamphlet in Sweden: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_the_war_comes
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About David Korowicz
KOROWICZ HUMAN SYSTEMS - korowiczhumansystems.com
The Transformation of Risk and Societal Preparedness
Navigating the interface between understanding the growing systemic risks to human security, and realistic whole-society contingency planning.
David is working on understanding large-scale systemic risk and supporting policy and social responses. Up until February 2020, he was director of Risk and Response at the Geneva Global Initiative, where his work was aimed at encouraging and supporting large-scale preparedness and contingency planning for intensifying large-scale systemic risks.
He is a systems thinker, physicist and human systems ecologist, interested in the challenges to our societies arising from the transformation of risk. This fits into his broader interests into the evolution, stability, and collapse of complex societies. He is an advocate for a re-appraisal of risk and the need for societal resilience, instability preparedness, and catastrophic shock planning.
He argues we are on the cusp of an inevitable major societal transformations that will largely outrun our capacity to manage or control. The implications will be prolonged and severe. We can choose to face such consequences head-on, and work to support what’s best in our human story in times that threaten to expose the worst. Understanding, anticipation and preparedness is part of this.
David has been a pioneer in drawing upon ideas from fields such as ecology, complexity and systems science to shed light on emergent risks, vulnerabilities and uncertainties. He has written influential studies on the the financial and socio-economic implications of a peak in global oil production; the propagation of financial and monetary shocks through trade networks and critical infrastructures; pandemic shocks and the limits to growth. Currently, he is developing a Globally Integrated Systemic Risk framework.
He has given briefings, lectures and delivered workshops world-wide to governmental and non-governmental organisations, critical institutions, parliamentary committees, critical infrastructure companies and the general public. For example, he has been an invited contributor on the socio-economic implications of a severe pandemic for USAID/ US Pacific Fleet ASEAN preparedness, and to the pandemic working group of the Global Agenda Council on Complexity & Risk (World Economic Forum); presented on contingency planning for large-scale socio-economic stress and shocks; and taught a masters course Human Systems Ecology & Systemic Risk at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. David was a ministerial appointment to the council of Comhar, Ireland’s sustainable development commission. He spent a number of years on the executive committee of Feasta, The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability - a think-tank. David also made a significant contribution to the Foresight Analysis Nexus.
David studied physics at Trinity College Dublin, the University of London and the Tyndall National Institute.
He divides his time between Dublin and Geneva.
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About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help people, and humans as a whole, to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can survive and thrive, no matter what the future holds.
facebook.com/aaron.wissner.9
youtube.com/user/newculture
lifeishnowish.blogspot.com
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Seeing the Big, Big Picture of Now - David Korowicz & Aaron Wissner | Local Future
202004181551 UTC Aaron Wayne Wissner
What is the big, big picture of the global economy? Is it becoming more fragile? What are the impacts of shocks? What can be done now by forward looking governments, organizations, and individuals? Physicist and dynamic systems thinker David Korowicz shares his thoughts with Aaron Wissner in an exclusive 90-minute interview.
Notes for Viewers:
* If you would like to provide time stamps on what you feel is relevant, please post them into the comments, and they will be added to this description :-)
* Remember that the video speed can be changes up to 2x speed, so if you're already familiar with the ideas shared by David, feel free to listen at high-speed mode
* The video is provided uncut, other than a couple pauses for technical fixes
* If you appeciate content like this, please 1. subscribe, 2. sign up for notifications, 3. comment, 4. like, and 5. share
* For new viewers to these concepts, consider watching previous talks by David, which we've put together into this playlist, mostly from recordings made by Local Future, but from other sources as well
* youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu9390d_J5Mf6XR0aJk2w4TafyFLJiuTQ
* David's reference to the pamphlet in Sweden: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_the_war_comes
*****
About David Korowicz
KOROWICZ HUMAN SYSTEMS - korowiczhumansystems.com
The Transformation of Risk and Societal Preparedness
Navigating the interface between understanding the growing systemic risks to human security, and realistic whole-society contingency planning.
David is working on understanding large-scale systemic risk and supporting policy and social responses. Up until February 2020, he was director of Risk and Response at the Geneva Global Initiative, where his work was aimed at encouraging and supporting large-scale preparedness and contingency planning for intensifying large-scale systemic risks.
He is a systems thinker, physicist and human systems ecologist, interested in the challenges to our societies arising from the transformation of risk. This fits into his broader interests into the evolution, stability, and collapse of complex societies. He is an advocate for a re-appraisal of risk and the need for societal resilience, instability preparedness, and catastrophic shock planning.
He argues we are on the cusp of an inevitable major societal transformations that will largely outrun our capacity to manage or control. The implications will be prolonged and severe. We can choose to face such consequences head-on, and work to support what’s best in our human story in times that threaten to expose the worst. Understanding, anticipation and preparedness is part of this.
David has been a pioneer in drawing upon ideas from fields such as ecology, complexity and systems science to shed light on emergent risks, vulnerabilities and uncertainties. He has written influential studies on the the financial and socio-economic implications of a peak in global oil production; the propagation of financial and monetary shocks through trade networks and critical infrastructures; pandemic shocks and the limits to growth. Currently, he is developing a Globally Integrated Systemic Risk framework.
He has given briefings, lectures and delivered workshops world-wide to governmental and non-governmental organisations, critical institutions, parliamentary committees, critical infrastructure companies and the general public. For example, he has been an invited contributor on the socio-economic implications of a severe pandemic for USAID/ US Pacific Fleet ASEAN preparedness, and to the pandemic working group of the Global Agenda Council on Complexity & Risk (World Economic Forum); presented on contingency planning for large-scale socio-economic stress and shocks; and taught a masters course Human Systems Ecology & Systemic Risk at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. David was a ministerial appointment to the council of Comhar, Ireland’s sustainable development commission. He spent a number of years on the executive committee of Feasta, The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability - a think-tank. David also made a significant contribution to the Foresight Analysis Nexus.
David studied physics at Trinity College Dublin, the University of London and the Tyndall National Institute.
He divides his time between Dublin and Geneva.
*****
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help people, and humans as a whole, to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can survive and thrive, no matter what the future holds.
facebook.com/aaron.wissner.9
youtube.com/user/newculture
lifeishnowish.blogspot.com
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Seeing the Big, Big Picture of Now - David Korowicz & Aaron Wissner | Local Future
202004181551 UTC Aaron Wayne Wissner
