And yet, one of the largest risks is that our modern society simply assumes that none of those will ever happen.
When I grew up in the 80's, society was built around the expectation that WW3 was pretty imminent, and while I'm quite happy that the cold war is over, modern society would most likely be better of if we stopped taking everything for granted and start preparing for things that we know will happen at some point. Like pandemics.
Some kind of shit will happen at some point. That's about the only thing that is certain. We should use the time we have until then for building a non-fragile society.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk
* https://www.existential-risk.org/
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