This is confusing. At one point risk is an essential component of ritualized calculations, but then the same formulas enable ignoring climate change? Also see

This is confusing. At one point risk is an essential component of ritualized calculations, but then the same formulas enable ignoring climate change? Also seems wrong at the core as what we know of economics shows symbols and counting used to track commodities and the regular production and trade of commodities then leading to lending and futures and so on which indicates that however abstract and ritualized everything emerges from and continues to be based on humans meeting their essential and perceived needs.