# Addicted to risk

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDWomen 2010
- Speaker: Naomi Klein
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics, Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/naomi_klein_addicted_to_risk)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP's risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more ... and too often, we're left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein's question: What's the backup plan?

## Lectures

1. [Addicted to risk](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/naomi_klein_addicted_to_risk/109ba6c0cd1b), 20 min (TED's player)