Can ecology, biology, mathematics and physics help us avoid (or at least predict) forthcoming troubles of the worst kind? An interview [recorded in April 2011] with scientist Len Fisher, Ph.D., author of the new book Crashes, Crises, and Calamities: How We Can Use Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs (Basic Books, 2011).
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