Rebecca Hersher
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559 appearances
28 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 6d ago
Rebecca Hersher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the United States, the National Weather Service issues, you know, official warnings that trigger alerts on the radio, on television, on cell phones.
Like your phone might buzz or make an alarm sound if there's a flash flood warning in your area.
You've probably gotten those in the summer, right?
Totally.
And those alerts save lives.
The U.S.
is a great example of this, actually.
This country has some of the lowest per capita fatality rates from weather in the world, even though we have widespread exposure to heat waves, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, extreme thunderstorms.
And that's according to an annual climate risk analysis sponsored by the German government.
But millions of people in poorer countries, they do not get effective warnings the way we do.
About half the world's least developed and small island nations don't have early warning systems, according to a 2025 United Nations report.
Yeah, exactly, which leads to deaths.
Here's United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in a speech last year.
So the UN and other groups are trying to fix this problem.
Since 2022, the UN...
and the World Bank, and other contributors, they have spent more than $4 billion on weather warning systems.
And the goal is to protect everyone on Earth by 2027, although that's very soon.
The UN acknowledges that it will likely not meet that goal.
Still, the money, it is flowing, and some places are seeing progress, including Cambodia, which the UN has touted as a success story, which is really one of the reasons that I wanted to visit.
Well, they've made progress.
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