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Who's Gonna Pay for all this Superhero Destruction?

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea Let PBS know what type of digital series you'd like to see by taking this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2016 Who foots the bill when superheroes decide to “save” us? Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com We often joke about what the cost would be to fix all of the destruction we see in superhero and disaster films, because we know that its not a real issue. But the reality is, we still haven’t solved this problem when natural disasters occur in real life. As Hurricane Katrina has shown, our response to catastrophe is sluggish and inefficient, largely because we still don’t have  …...more
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Who's Gonna Pay for all this Superhero Destruction?
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108,478Views
2016Mar 30
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea Let PBS know what type of digital series you'd like to see by taking this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2016 Who foots the bill when superheroes decide to “save” us? Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com We often joke about what the cost would be to fix all of the destruction we see in superhero and disaster films, because we know that its not a real issue. But the reality is, we still haven’t solved this problem when natural disasters occur in real life. As Hurricane Katrina has shown, our response to catastrophe is sluggish and inefficient, largely because we still don’t have the conversation about ‘who is going to pay for all of this’ often. Featuring: Joe Hanson    / itsokaytobesmart   Anna Rothschild    / grossscienceshow   Vanessa Hill    / braincraftvideo   ---------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­­--------------------------- ASSET LINKS: All asset links can be viewed here in this fun Google doc! https://docs.google.com/document/d/13... ---------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­--------------------------- Check out our awesome T-Shirts!! http://bit.ly/1U8fS1B Designed by: http://artsparrow.com/ ---------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­--------------------------- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)

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