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How Human History Is Shaped by Disaster, According to Niall Ferguson
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
English - July 24, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 474 ratingsNews Government terrorism worldevents geopolitics globalization globalleadership populism trump worldpolitics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Stanford historian Niall Ferguson joins Ian Bremmer on the GZERO World podcast to talk about the geopolitics of disaster. Throughout human history we seem to be unable to adequately prepare for catastrophes (natural or human-caused) before they strike. Why is that? And as we emerge from the greatest calamity of our lifetimes in the COVID-19 pandemic and look to the plethora of crises that climate change has and will cause, what can we do to lessen the blow?
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