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Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle...

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.

Natural disasters bedevil our planet, and each appears to be a unique event. Leading geologist Susan W. Kieffer shows how all disasters are connected. In 2011 there were fourteen natural calamities that each destroyed over a billion dollars' worth of property in the United States alone. In 2012 Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast and major earthquakes struck in Italy, the Philippines, Iran, and Afghanistan.

The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes listeners on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and episodes that rule it.

Im Podcast des Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA) geben wir der „Wissenschaft im Einsatz“ eine Stimme: Wir beleuchten die Krisen- und Katastrophenforschung aus verschiedenen Perspektiven, blicken hinter die Kulissen des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und geben konkrete Einblicke in die Arbeit von Forscher:innen und Einsatzkräften. Wie werden Forschungsergebnisse an die entscheidenden Stellen weitergeleitet? Welche Fachgebiete gehören zur Katastrophenforschung? Wie sieht die Arbeit von Wissenschaftler:innen und Einsatzkräften aus? Diese Fragen und noch viele mehr stellen wir ...