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99% Invisible

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2024-08-14

1 小时 5 分钟
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A preview of our new mini-series Not Built For This and couple stories from the relaunched What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

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  • This is 99% invisible.

  • I'm Roman Mars.

  • Longtime 99 PI listeners know that every couple of years, one of our producers breaks off from the normal show production and helms their own miniseries.

  • This is how Avery Trufelman's Articles of interest and Katie Mingle's According to Need were made, and they represent some of the best work we've ever done.

  • Next week, we will premiere a new series of six episodes that will run twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays.

  • It was created by longtime superstar producer Emmett Fitzgerald, and it's called Not Built for this.

  • It is absolutely brilliant.

  • I cannot wait for you to hear it.

  • Here is a preview.

  • I grew up in Vermont, a state that has occasionally been described as a climate haven.

  • Whenever someone publishes a list of places you should move if you want to escape climate change, Vermont always seems to be somewhere near the top.

  • I've been covering climate change long enough to know that no place will be safe, but I have to admit that I've always found these lists weirdly comforting.

  • That is, until last summer.

  • About a year ago, it rained so hard in central Vermont that my little green valley filled up like a bathtub, flooding downtown Montpelier.

  • This eerie orchestra that you're hearing is the sound of every security system on Main street going off all at once.

  • It felt almost too on the nose, like the universe was ringing some kind of planetary alarm bell saying, snap out of it.

  • Your quaint little home isn't as safe as you think.

  • But if my little town isn't safe, is anyone's.

  • I'm Emmett Fitzgerald and I'm the host of Not Built for this, a new miniseries from 99% Invisible, and it's about climate change, but it's really about how the complex systems that govern our lives were not designed to handle the tectonic changes that are coming.

  • We're going to look at infrastructure and insurance, housing and land use policy, migration and public health.