The cost of being prepared
Marketplace
Marketplace
4.6 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Natural disaster recovery is often expensive, but this season is shaping up to be particularly costly and painful. The Southeast is reeling from Hurricane Helene, and Hurricane Milton is expected to inflict more damage starting tomorrow night. Disaster preparedness can reduce the economic burden of recovery, but not all localities can afford to be prepared. Also in this episode: The Fed’s interest rate cut raised business owners’ optimism and China invites more young Americans to visit.
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| 0:21.3 | Hi, I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive. It's a podcast from Marketplace. |
| 0:27.0 | In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy. |
| 0:31.0 | Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. |
| 0:35.0 | It was the Cold War, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers. |
| 0:39.0 | Today, though, there's another threat out there climate change. |
| 0:43.8 | This could be the warmest year on record. |
| 0:45.9 | Climate changes here. |
| 0:47.0 | Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth. |
| 0:50.8 | And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on |
| 0:54.5 | climate change since the 1950s. I think we will put our troops and our forces at |
| 1:01.0 | higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change. |
| 1:06.1 | This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis to see how the military is preparing |
| 1:10.8 | for the threat. Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:17.6 | All right, how about this? |
| 1:18.8 | We'll do the economic news because, of course, |
| 1:22.3 | but then a nice long conversation about artistry from American |
| 1:27.9 | public media this is market plans. In Los Angeles, I'm kind of Rizdahl. It is Tuesday, today the 8th of October. |
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