The Law of Unintended Consequences

Stephen Hawking: If you funnel vast new financial resources into some of the world's most vulnerable countries, they are going to exacerbate a whole host of problems. "I'm sure you are familiar with the law of unintended consequences," he says. He adds that international finance institutions need to come to the table to fund these bottom-up processes so perspectives of local communities living on the front lines are brought into the equation of solutions.