Great question - typically, such events have had a very hard time translating passion into actionable change, and have also had a hard time in making sure that funds raised make it to needly populations without spillage/admin/corruption eating them up. We actually go into detail about the very first aid benefit, the Concert for Bangladesh, in The Vortex.

Thanks! While we've made improvements as a field in our ability to predict internal conflicts, major global conflict between states of the type that will create a world war is unfortunately still notoriously difficult to predict. And it can be triggered in the most unlikely places, like in 1971 when the USA and USSR almost started World War III over East Pakistan, a place they cared little about the year before. And many think that the next great war won't be fought with nukes, but viruses (the 11010001001100 kind).

That said, I'm not a doomsdayer - we have to learn from our mistakes and close calls from the past if we hope to talk ourselves down from the ledge in the future. I choose to remain an optimist about our future.

Oh this is a really interesting question - thanks for this. I haven't yet researched a 'perfect' example of a company working through both at the same time as you mention, but there's certainly quite a few cases I can think of of climate-induced vulnerabilities exacerbating conflicts that businesses have to work through - or such vulnerabilities helping to create conflicts between businesses and communities.

Generally, companies that spend the investment in working with their community to be able to work through things like the climate crisis together are better placed when the event actually comes, like a hurricane, flooding, or similar. Our research suggests that companies who see community engagement as insurance to cover catastrophic social risk tended to be better prepared and more likely to emerge stronger after crisis.

That said, I'd also add that effective response also depends a great deal on how politicians are responding to the crisis, and if they are in fact using the climate-induced disaster to make conflict worse. One of the most horrific examples of this is in the Great Bhola Cyclone, a storm that killed half a million people and precipitated a genocide.

Regardless, this is a fascinating and essential forward research area, and I know a lot of great scholars that are trying to better understand just the sorts of links you're talking about. It's a race against time, so hopefully we can deliver solid enough research and guidance in time to support informed decisions.