To cope with a growing range of threats, human systems need to become more like healthy natural systems - diverse and with plenty of duplication, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview.
“Ecological diversity is a way of reducing risks,” he said. “If you want to recover in a resilient way after Covid-19, you likely want to invest in diversity”. The same principle could also be applied to ways people make a living - particularly where options today are scarce - and to how they source reliable information, he said.
“If you have more shocks like that, you want to invest in a certain degree of redundancy - some slack in the system,” said Rockstrom, even though that “goes against conventional logic” of running businesses for maximum efficiency and at low cost.
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