Yesterday, a demolition team brought down the remaining structure of the collapsed Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida. The death count is now at 27, with 118 people still […]
Texas Power Outages Reveal Cracks in the System
It’s been reported that a third of Texans are still dealing with disrupted water service and others are still without power after last week’s major winter storm. First up on […]
Disaster Capitalism and Lessons from Post-Katrina New Orleans
Disaster capitalism describes the process of private industries springing up to profit from large-scale crises, according to Naomi Klein, who popularized the term in her influential 2007 book The Shock […]
Rebroadcast: Wildfires and Disaster Response
Today’s episode is a rebroadcast from January 7, 2019. As wildfire season approaches again, we return to this conversation with guest Dave Lowe, who works for the US Forest Service […]
The Nuclear History of Chernobyl with Kate Brown
Thirty-three years ago, on April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine experienced two explosions and a fire that released deadly levels of radioactive gas and ash. […]
Adult Swim: Apocalypse Wow!
This is an important announcement. The world as we know it will end shortly. All residents of the Madison area over the age of twenty one are advised to head […]
