As COVID-19 demonstrated yet again (and on scales that must have surprised even those who do not expect any good news), we are repeatedly caught ill-prepared for dealing with recurrent high-impact but relatively low-frequency risks such as viral pandemics that take place once in a decade, once in a generation, or once in a century. How would we then cope (all reports and analyses aside) with another Carrington Event, or with an asteroid hitting the ocean near the Azores and causing a massive circum-Atlantic tsunami of the same magnitude as the one caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake—that is,
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