Not Built For This #1: The Bottom of the Bowl

不是为此而设计的#1:碗的底部

99% Invisible

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2024-08-20

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Reporter Emmett Fitzgerald was used to hearing people call his home state of Vermont a “climate haven.” But last summer, he got a wake up call in the form of a devastating flood.

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  • This is 99% invisible.

  • I'm Roman Mars.

  • Today I'm really excited to bring you the beginning of a new miniseries that we've been working on for the past year.

  • It's called Not Built for this and it's about climate change, but in a very 99 PI kind of way.

  • It's not really about the science or CO2 projections or electric cars.

  • This series is about how our world was not designed for the tectonic changes that are coming from top to bottom.

  • Our society is full of structures and systems that are being stress tested by increasingly extreme weather.

  • The series is going to cover infrastructure and insurance, housing and public health.

  • Over the course of six episodes, we're going to take you all over the United States to Florida, California, Louisiana and Arizona.

  • But today, we're going to start with a small story set in an unlikely state.

  • If you had to make a list of the states you thought were relatively safe from the worst impacts of climate change, Vermont might be close to the top.

  • The Green Mountain State is relatively cool.

  • There's plenty of water.

  • It's nowhere near the ocean.

  • It also happens to be the state where Emmett Fitzgerald, the host of our series, grew up.

  • He's from Montpelier, a quaint little town that's also somehow the capital city.

  • And it's truly the last place that I ever imagined starting this series.

  • But then something happened last year that made everyone in Montpelier understand that they might not be so safe after all.

  • And so, to begin, I want to take you to the little town that I know best in all the world and explain what happened.

  • This is episode one of Not Built for this.