How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us

KPFA - Letters and Politics

English - August 13, 2019 10:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 232 ratings
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Today, we are in conversation with Dr. Lucy Jones about the effects humans have on the climate and natural disasters, and what we can do now that we’ve caused them.
Guest: Dr. Lucy Jones is a seismologist and public voice for earthquake science and earthquake safety in California. She has been with the US Geological Survey and a Visiting Research Associate at the Seismological Laboratory of Caltech since 1983. She is also the author of The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them).
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