Societies
20 min
The Cities Betting Against the Earth
A quarter of humanity lives where the ground will break. Nobody knows when.
Roughly a quarter of humanity now lives on the Ring of Fire, in cities placing the same wager: that the rupture seismology cannot time will arrive after the buildings they can engineer are ready for it. This episode follows the bet from the science that failed to predict to the cities staking their lives on engineering instead.
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One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.