We should absolutely be investing in that, similar threats like supervolcano eruptions, and, obviously, climate change. Until recently you might put a global pa

We should absolutely be investing in that, similar threats like supervolcano eruptions, and, obviously, climate change. Until recently you might put a global pandemic on that list too, actually! Unfortunately both the capitalist and democratic systems are poorly suited to tackling such long-term threats. Climate change is the most immediate and certain of these (outside of pandemic), and even there the response has been pretty poor. But at least there is a response, unlike for these other disasters that will hit someday; we just don't know when.