About the Book: The Fifth Risk
The morning after Trump was elected President, the people who ran the US
Department of energy - An agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks
facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administrations transition
team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened:
nothing. People dont notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government
does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from funding free school
meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events.
It steps in where private investment fears to tread, innovates and creates
knowledge, assesses extreme long-term