Posts Tagged ‘Nostradamus’
2012: Contingency Planning and Risk Management
I just switched to history channel and Nostradamus 2012 is on. It’s pretty distrubing stuff. Many end-of-world predictions have come and gone uneventful, but this particular date (Dec 21, 2012) is surrounded with a worrying amount of scientific backing.
Kind of makes you think through all the issues. Keeping with the theme of my blog – I want to focus on our dependence on technology. We are completely surrounded with technology down to the very ‘insignificant’ toaster most use in the morning. They say we are going to have significant shift in cosmic activity – the Sun’s activity will peak around the 2012 date and we are sure to suffer disruption with all our technical systems.
Given the end isn’t a ‘big bang’ and we continue on this path of gradual climate change, natural disasters, disease and the rest – what can we do to survive and manage the risks associated with technological disruptions? I don’t think we are going to just give up.
How many people in their everyday contingency planning and risk management duties take into consideration such events? Are we still sceptical about such predictions and should we be changing our attitude? What can we really do and is it worth it?
That said, what worries me most is famine, extreme famine to the point where even plant species become extinct so we don’t even have the option of going back to basics. Maybe a topic for another time.
