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CATASTROPHE is a documentary podcast series examining humanity's most devastating tragedies through historical analysis and survivor testimony. Hosted by AI correspondent Alexandra Reeves, the series explores the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that introduced nuclear horror to the world, the systematic evil of the Holocaust where Nazi genocide murdered six million Jews and millions of others, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that exposed the deadly combination of technological complexity and institutional failure. Drawing from historical documents, eyewitness accounts, and rigorous ...

An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural disasters'. Science recounts a different story, however: disasters are not the consequence of natural causes; they are the consequence of human choices and decisions. we put ourselves in harm's way; we fail to take measures which we know would prevent disasters, no matter what the environment does.

In 1917, the Halifax Disaster became the largest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb, leaving a profound impact on society. This observational study delves into the social dynamics surrounding this monumental catastrophe, focusing not on the events history but on its effects on social structures and change. The author meticulously examines the immediate shock and disintegration experienced by individuals and communities, analyzing their reactions through the lens of sociological theory. The work highlights the intricate process of social organization that unfolded in the wake of the ...

'Consummate and thorough' – The Times 'Darkly entertaining' – The Spectator A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world. Our species has a unique...

Humankind has never before faced challenges of the scale and complexity of today. We need to expand our ethical toolkit. The mental tools most of us rely on to ‘do the right thing’ just don’t work when it comes to reasoning about such huge collective problems. From the small stuff like single-use plastics to major decisions like whether to have children, Rieder defines exactly how we can change our thinking and lead a decent, meaningful life in a scary, complicated world.

It dawned on me one day that most of the scare stories in the media today are based on things that are either invisible, like CO2 and radiation, or very remote, like polar bears and coral reefs. Thus, the average person cannot observe and verify the truth of these claims for themselves. They must rely on activists, the media, politicians, and scientists - all of whom have a huge financial and/or political interest in the subject - to tell them the truth.

When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to "natural disasters" or "acts of God." But what if they're neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves? That's the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first audiobook to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a "perfect storm," but a tragedy of our own making - and one that could become commonplace.

"Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can both leak from a lab and emerge in nature." (New York...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind turns cold.' In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in...

Monthly Podcast for the Risk and Insurance Industry focusing on catastrophe resiliency and modeling.

L’Envers des Catastrophes est la version française du podcast Disasters: Deconstructed. C’est un podcast qui, à partir de plusieurs disciplines et perspectives, entend réfléchir aux causes profondes des catastrophes afin de mieux comprendre les moyens, approches, et enjeux visant à leur réduction. Dans chaque épisode, on reçoit un invité francophone qui développe des idées, critiques, analyses ou initiatives qui nous permettent d’explorer les concepts clés, ainsi que les enjeux sociaux, économiques, culturels, idéologiques, ou politiques liés aux catastrophes dites « ...

A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already...

Every year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions of people and cause massive economic losses. Climate change is making these catastrophes more dangerous. Now. Not in the future: now. This book describes how and why climate change is already fomenting dire consequences and will certainly make climate disasters worse in the near future.

In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats which, in turn, contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and nonhuman suffering.

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.

In Footprints, David Farrier explores what traces we will leave for the very deep future. From long-lived materials like plastic and nuclear waste, to the 50 million kilometres of roads spanning the planet, in modern times we have created numerous objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock.