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 …