Sciencespeaking topic
In a forest, if you let small fires happen, a huge fire never breaks out; if you suppress them all for years, one day everything burns at once. The same holds for financial crises. Why does preventing small disasters sometimes guarantee the big one?
— critical thresholds / forest-fire model and systemic risk
practice with this topic
Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.
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