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
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.