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We avoided disaster (with only minor glitches) at Y2K because a lot of people did a lot of good work to ensure the safety of our infrastructure.
The European Central Bank avoided disaster with its own program to pump cash into banks but, as two Morgan Stanley economists, Joachim Fels and Elga Bartsch, noted this week, that move was "not a circuit breaker that transferred risk from the private sector to the central bank's balance sheet".
And again, UCLA avoided disaster with an efficient second half in a 77-66 win over UC Riverside at Pauley Pavilion.
The next day he himself was shot down by a CR.42 and had to bail out, narrowly avoiding disaster when he became entangled first with his oxygen hose and then with the Gladiator's wing-bracing wires; he was only torn loose at a height of by the force of rushing air as his stricken plane fell to earth.
For their part, Europeans might consider themselves lucky that their first serious joust with populism has a chance of avoiding disaster.
But avoiding disaster needn't be difficult.
Still, avoiding disaster does not amount to success.
But, as many commentators have also noted, the deal doesn't get the U.S. or China remotely near where they need to be if the world is to avoid disaster — which both countries, along with pretty much every other state in the world, have defined as warming of more than two degrees Celsius.
We cannot avoid disasters, but with long-term planning and action (over perhaps 40 to 60 years), we can vastly reduce and mitigate the death and destruction of disasters.
