Xrisk mitigation isn’t the resource; risky behavior is the resource. If you engage in more risky behavior, then I can’t engage in as much risky behavior without pushing us over into a socially unacceptable level of total risky behavior.
I think existence is the resource. Risky behavior and risk-mitigating behavior both impact the probabilities of such resource in the future. The fundamental resource (enjoying existence when disaster has not happened yet) is non-rivalrous and non-excludable. Funding for risk-mitigating projects is both rivalrous and excludable—that’s just normal goods. Allowing risk-increasing behaviors is … difficult to model.
I think it is rivalrous.
Xrisk mitigation isn’t the resource; risky behavior is the resource. If you engage in more risky behavior, then I can’t engage in as much risky behavior without pushing us over into a socially unacceptable level of total risky behavior.
I think existence is the resource. Risky behavior and risk-mitigating behavior both impact the probabilities of such resource in the future. The fundamental resource (enjoying existence when disaster has not happened yet) is non-rivalrous and non-excludable. Funding for risk-mitigating projects is both rivalrous and excludable—that’s just normal goods. Allowing risk-increasing behaviors is … difficult to model.