Athena Aktipis

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

So, so I think that, you know, there's, there's certainly there's,

We're sort of at an apocalyptic kind of moment just in terms of, I think, people's receptivity to the idea that maybe we should be managing risk more proactively.

And a lot of the sort of setup for the book with the first chapter is kind of meant to put a playful tone on the fact that things are fucked up in a lot of ways right now.

Yeah.

So it's not meant to be like pessimistic, really.

It's just like, hey, there's a lot of stuff going on.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

So I think one of the easiest things that we can do is just think about risk management in a fun way, right?

So there are a lot of things that we can do at the household level to manage risk better.

And then we can also sort of build communities that do a better job of managing risk.

And then you can take that up to the highest scales as well.

And

You know, things like, you know, making sure that you're ready for, you know, an emergency, right?

So there's this idea of all hazards preparation, which is basically just, you know, emergency preparation.

But you can make it a little bit more fun by being like, hey, are you ready for the zombie apocalypse?

You know, do you have like 72 hours worth of stuff so you could just shelter in place?

So...

You know, things like some basic emergency preparedness, that actually, you know, helps to make our overall systems more robust, too, because if there is a natural disaster and all households are able to shelter in place, say, for 72 hours, then whatever, you know, institutional level issues

support is available to deal with a problem can be focused on the acute problem as opposed to having to split effort between the problem and the humanitarian crisis that can emerge in those situations.

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