The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters

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Juliet Kiam: Extreme climate events are happening in frequency and magnitude that we've never seen before. In 2023 already, we have 12 confirmed weather climate disaster events with losses exceeding one billion in the United States. Since 1980 to last year, we have about 8.1 events a year. Those are getting faster and more frequent in 1980.

Vermont just got slammed with flash floods, road closures, and evacuations. Harvard’s Juliette Kayyem says the storm reveals how unprepared the US is for the present moment, when natural disasters are more frequent and more intense than ever before.

This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.

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