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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170506-161053 https://verfassungsblog.de/big-handle-warum-wir-schlecht-sind-im-abwenden-von-katastrophen/ Too big to handle: Why we are so bad at preventing catastrophes Steinbeis, Maximilian ger 2014-10-15 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Financial crises, genocides, environmental catastrophes, epidemics, wars – constantly things happen we knew exactly that they would a) happen with some likeliness or even certainty, and b) be absolutely horrible. And still we have let it happen. And not just because we could not help it. But because somehow, all things considered, we did not want to. We haven’t done what we could have done. We didn’t want to know what we could have known. What is this strange phenomenon about? And how can we improve ourselves? To find answers to those questions, last week an extraordinarily illustrious group of scholars from all sorts of disciplines had assembled at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.