Not Built For This #6: Maximum Temperature
6 September - 41 minsThe impacts of climate disasters are often measured in terms of property damage. But in places like Phoenix, Arizona, and in hot places all over the world, climate change is wreaking a very different kind of havoc – on living things. In the final episode of Not Built for This, we reckon with the biological limits of climate adaptation.
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Series Episodes
Medellin, Revisited
Once considered the most dangerous city in the world due to drug cartel violence, by the early 2000s Medellin had reinvented itself. But gentrification is allowing criminal gangs to reap large profits from a shadow economy powered by the tourist boom.
33 mins
10 September Finished
Not Built For This #5: The Little Levee That Could
How the residents of Hamilton City, California finally got the levee they deserved.
48 mins
3 September Finished
Not Built For This #4: Unbuilding the Terrace
What’s it like for residents to fight like hell for help, but the help on offer means leaving the place they love?
48 mins
30 August Finished
Not Built For This #3: The Price is Wrong
As storms get more extreme and unpredictable, insurance companies are running the numbers on Florida and realizing that the math just isn’t working anymore.
49 mins
27 August Finished
Not Built For This #2: The Ripple Effect
How a wildfire in California exacerbated a housing crisis.
57 mins
23 August Finished
