TED Talk: Naomi Klein on "Are We Addicted to Risk?"

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Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more ... and too often, we're left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein's question: What's the backup plan? In this TED Talk, Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, looks at the BP Oil Spill and Climate Change, asking if we are indeed "addicted to risk?". Watch below and comment here on the blog:

David Wyld, Professor of Management
Southeastern Louisiana University

Wyld About Business (http://wyld-business.blogspot.com/)

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