Just as our financial portfolios need diversification to mitigate risk and thrive, our social, economic and cultural systems need diversity to thrive and maintain a healthy planet.
By its very nature, risk-taking thrives in the shadows and crises take regulators by surprise.
And yet, in spite of these risks, despots thrive on this uncertainty.
Non-commercial poly-cultures are better for balancing diets and reducing risk, and can thrive without agrochemicals.
As his staff will tell you, he thrives on risk.
Even the roof of the Peanut Corporation of America plant here in rural southwest Georgia was an obvious risk, given that salmonella thrives in water and the facility should have been kept bone dry.
Borrower and lender alike had to accept risk for capitalism to thrive.
There are gamblers who get a charge out of playing the odds and thrive off risk.
Enron thrived on risk, hurling itself into projects and businesses largely untested by others, earning along the way a reputation for innovation and the acclaim of the investors and analysts who now so angrily shun it because of its murky accounting.
But risk taking can only thrive in a stable residency environment.
