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From Florence to Mangkhut, How Unprepared Are We?

An abandoned car’s hazard lights continue to flash as it sits submerged in a rising flood waters during pre-dawn hours after Hurricane Florence struck in Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S., September 15, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

As Hurricane Florence continues to pound North Carolina relentlessly, well examine the dangers residents face from coal ash and hog waste pits flooding, as well as take a look at what came out of the Global Climate Action Summit in California last week with Peter Miller of the Natural Resources Defence Council. Then, David Dayen joins us for a retrospective on the fall of Lehman Brothers 10 years ago and how our measures of economic success are completely skewed.

Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar.

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