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In this bonus episode of The Insurgency, Steve sits down with Professor Roger Koppl to ask why experts have so often missed crisis after crisis in our lifetimes.
They discuss why so many governments relied on ad‑hoc COVID committees, like SAGE, designed to preserve ministerial discretion rather than discover the truth, and why Sweden’s very different institutional path led to a better outcome. Roger explains why he believes the COVID response may prove to be “the West’s Chernobyl moment”, and how Net Zero policy repeats the same errors by treating the complex “technosphere” that feeds billions as if it were a simple machine that can be re‑engineered from on high.
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Highlight clips of the interview will be released on our YouTube channel over the next few days.
Thumbnail background image credit: “Billingshurst Weald School Covid‑19 Coronavirus posters in C Block toilets on the boys’ side at the entrance” by N Chadwick, licensed under CC BY‑SA 4.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Thumbnail modified for this episode.
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