Here’s a quick FYI: I just published an article Hurricane Sandy Hints At The Perils Of Global Catastrophe in Scientific American. This discusses the impacts of Sandy on the US and Haiti, and what this means for global catastrophic risk. The basic idea is that when one event disrupts multiple parts of the world, they can’t help each other out like they usually do. Right now the US can’t help Haiti as much because it’s busy helping itself. In a global catastrophe, there may not be any external assistance, making the recovery much harder.

This article is part of GCRI’s broader education efforts, aiming to raise awareness about global catastrophic risk. We believe it is important for research insights to be shared beyond the research world. As GCRI grows, we plan to be doing more public scholarship along these lines in order to help get the research ideas the attention they deserve.