Press Play with Madeleine Brand

With global warming comes more disasters, and insurance companies are pulling out of risky areas

In Redding, California, firefighters are still battling the large Mountain Fire that broke out late Thursday morning. It's not far from where the Carr Fire burned more than 200,000 acres last year.

By Madeleine Brand • Aug 23, 2019 • 1 min read

In Redding, California, firefighters are still battling the large Mountain Fire that broke out late Thursday morning. It's not far from where the Carr Fire burned more than 200,000 acres last year. Globally, Greece, Spain, Indonesia, and France are seeing fires. In Brazil, the Amazon rainforest is burning out of control. These kinds of natural disasters have become more frequent as the effects of climate change set in.

Madeleine Brand
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Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
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Carolyn Kousky
executive director of the Wharton Risk Center at the University of Pennsylvania
Dave Jones
former California Insurance Commissioner

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

With global warming comes more disasters, and insurance companies are pulling out of risky areas

In Redding, California, firefighters are still battling the large Mountain Fire that broke out late Thursday morning. It's not far from where the Carr Fire burned more than 200,000 acres last year.

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

With global warming comes more disasters, and insurance companies are pulling out of risky areas

In Redding, California, firefighters are still battling the large Mountain Fire that broke out late Thursday morning. It's not far from where the Carr Fire burned more than 200,000 acres last year.

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