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Great Environmental Shocks in History | How An Earthquake Splintered The World | 4
Episode 131

Great Environmental Shocks in History | How An Earthquake Splintered The World | 4

Legacy · Original Legacy Productions

March 24, 202645m 27s

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Afua and Peter examine the terrifying 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, revealing how a massive geological rupture in Japan unexpectedly triggered a radical energy revolution in Germany and shifted the scales of European geopolitics. From the heroic struggle of the "Fukushima 50" to the strategic vulnerabilities exposed by a reliance on Russian gas, they explore the sobering reality that even our most advanced engineering remains at the mercy of the Earth's shifting plates


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