Jeffrey Schlegelmilch on How to Prepare for Disaster

Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, author of the new book “Rethinking Readiness: A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters” and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, discusses what today’s tragedies reveal about the future, why uncertainty should not impede action, and how local community solutions provide a valuable framework for coping with catastrophes.

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A podcast about the bigger picture. Host Spencer Bailey calls on leading minds, from scientists and technologists to artists and climate activists, to zoom out and look at some of the planet’s most pressing issues from a whole-earth, long-view perspective.