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EPISODE 11

REYKJAVIK

The road to hell is paved with good intentions – French Proverb

PANEL A

A crowded road. 6 lanes. All cars have solar cells on their roofs. You hear a few horns.

Text: “Giving everyone access to cheap, environmental friendly personal transport seemed like a good idea. But since everyone is using it people waste hours and hours on the streets”.

PANEL B

A nice office. Through the window you can still see the traffic-jammed-road:…

1. The EVOKE Network is a team of volunteers who are prepared to help the world face its most critical challenges.
2. Therefore every EVOKE agent must know the background to the world’s problems, the threats, the chances.
3. Everyone can join this network – but whoever joins is coming for the sake of helping others.
4. EVOKE agents benefit from the variety of different people in the network. It is one of the important goals of the EVOKE network to get all sorts of people…

Evoke Season 1 (as well as 2 and 3) meant to tackle a variety of social problems. What I think should be considered for a further episode is transportation. This has a lot to do with the environmental and urbanity topics. People have to come from A to B also in 30 years time. One could either find ways to make transportation less necessary (for example via new technologies / ways of distributing goods) or make transportation easier and less dangerous for the environment.

I think…

My favorite secret about crisis management is “covering risk”. I think it’s because I’m studying economics and handle some kind of risk in everything I do.

A big problem in economics as well as in crisis management is that people do not know the probabilities ob an event. This is why they, on the one hand buy expensive insurance against obscure unrealistic events – and on the other hand start to panic when there is some kind of crisis. Or to cut it short, people are not rational.…