Bigger Than Texas

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Pushkin Industries

News Commentary, Government, News

4.4 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Alice Hill, former Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Resilience Policy on the National Security Council, explains what Texas’ electrical grid collapse means for our country’s infrastructure at large. She also makes recommendations on how we can start preparing infrastructure now for extreme weather events.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
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0:41.5	From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background. I'm Noah Feldman. Last month, we all saw the
0:49.3	devastating images from Texas. Plunging temperatures and two severe winter storms in quick succession led to a
0:56.2	breakdown of the state's energy grid. More than four and a half million homes and businesses were left
1:01.6	without power. Not only that, water service was disrupted for more than 12 million people because of
1:07.5	pipes freezing and bursting. It was an unprecedented failure of the state's infrastructure.
1:13.1	This disaster in Texas was a wake-up call for places all across the country.
1:18.8	Our infrastructure is consistently and concerningly outdated.
1:23.5	It often was not built to withstand extreme climate conditions of the kind we're seeing more of in an era of climate change.
1:32.3	We don't seem to be prepared for more frequent and severe storms.
1:37.3	Without a serious overhaul in the coming years, our electric grid, our water, and our sewage systems have the capacity to fail again, and to fail
1:46.6	massively. Here to help us get behind the story of what really happened in Texas and what we can do
1:54.6	about it going forward is Alice Hill. Alice is one of the country's leading experts on climate resilient infrastructure.
2:03.6	She's now a senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations.
2:07.6	But before that, she was special assistant to President Obama and senior director for resilience
2:13.6	in the White House. She led the national policy regarding preparing for the impact of climate change
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