Natural Security for a Variable and Risk-Filled World

摘要: INTRODUCTIONFish don't try to turn sharks into vegetarians. Living immersed in a world of constant risk forces the fish develop multiple ways live with risk, rather than trying eliminate it. The can dash away from shark burst speed, places can't reach, use deceptive coloration hide shark, form schools other confuse it even an alliance and all these things may help solve problem how avoid getting eaten by shark. But none adaptations will general predation, they need to. doesn't have be perfect predator-avoidance machine. Like every single one countless organisms shares planet with, just has good enough survive reproduce itself.The which we spend our daily lives is also full risk. Acts terrorism that seem come out nowhere. Wars carried on too long show little progress toward resolution. Catastrophic failures supposedly fail-safe oil rigs. Intensifying natural disasters fueled global changes climate. A distribution food leaves billions undernourished millions others facing obesity epidemic. cyber infrastructure we've become increasingly dependent upon vulnerable catastrophic attack. New diseases new mutations old threaten pandemics. major threats society faces today are ominous complex interplays human behavior environmental change, politics, local acts cruelty or carelessness, historical accidents, long-simmering tensions. Some plagued us as been yet made against them, becoming more dangerous synergy rapid climatic political changes, still now emerging.Yet responses offered forced accept experts entrusted problems often frustratingly ineffective, naive, plain ridiculous. When increased body screening airline passengers was implemented after 9/11, Richard Reid attempted destroy airliner bomb his shoe. shoes began screened response Reid's attack, al Qaeda plotted liquid explosive liquids were banned, Umar Abdulmutallab used powdered incendiary hidden underwear wall constructed between parts U.S. Mexico border at cost $1 million $10 per mile, slows down illegal immigrants estimated twenty minutes, its most fortified areas. 1 And tiny island town Beaufort, North Carolina there outpost National Ocean Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) studies populations coastal ecology. There reason suspect this any terrorist's list desirable targets. Yet when NOAA scientists wanted renovate add some space few years back, Department Homeland Security install enormous Wal-Mart style parking lot lights their facility required security measure. This ironic, since working lab know well nighttime light pollution threat ecology same marine environments paid taxpayers study. 2The famous line 9/11 Commission report represented "failure imagination," 3 certainly apt description situation up until 9/11. However, imagine almost anything security, pernicious systems: failure adaptation. Adaptation process changing structures, behaviors, interactions conditions environment. …