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Is the world ending, or does it just feel like it? "Are We Doomed?" investigates the greatest risks facing society, the planet, and our species. What’s real? What’s hype? And how do we actually make it out alive? Nukes. Asteroids. Autocracy. Rogue AI. Climate-driven pandemics. Angry hippopotamuses.

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How High Can You Build a Seawall?

October 13, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Ben Bradford (0:15)

This is a story about water, and it couldn't be more timely. It comes out as we're again seeing the damage water can do. A hurricane in Florida and Alabama in the east, record El Nino waves lapping against homes in the west, and the question is, how much can we do to defy it?

A paper came out a few months ago in a top journal. The researchers who wrote it had Voltron-ed together from complementary backgrounds, a coastal geologist, a marine scientist, an anthropologist, an urban planner. They looked at sea level rise.

Jesse Keenan (1:31)

The shoreline was dozens and dozens of miles north of where New Orleans is today.

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