Overcoming the Arrogance of Ignorance: Supply-Chain Lessons from COVID-19 for Climate Shocks

Joseph Sarkis; Paul Dewick; Joerg Stefan Hofstetter; Patrick Schröder

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.017

Overcoming the Arrogance of Ignorance: Supply-Chain Lessons from COVID-19 for Climate Shocks

One Earth. 2020 Jul 24;3(1):9-12. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.017.

Authors

Joseph Sarkis^{1

2}, Paul Dewick^{3

4}, Joerg Stefan Hofstetter⁵, Patrick Schröder⁶

Affiliations

¹ Foisie Business School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA.
² Humlog Institute, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Keele Business School, Keele University, Keele, UK.
⁴ Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
⁵ KEDGE Business School, Talence, France.
⁶ Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK.

Abstract

The effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remind us of our arrogance of ignorance. Society has suffered. We are emerging scarred but enlightened. Can COVID-19 lessons help us avoid repeating the same mistakes with future climate shocks? We offer a supply-chain perspective and a set of pragmatic actions to increase resilience to climate shocks.

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