Hosted by
Jeremiah Jacques
The Sun Also Rises
Aired:
April 21, 2016
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26 minutes
Sculpting the Planet
People are small. Each one of us is only about a 17-billionth of one cubic mile big, and we live on a planet that is 260 billion cubic miles in volume. That’s a major disparity. But sometimes people—tiny, mortal, ordinary people—reshape the planet. This episode brings you three accounts of people who permanently altered Earth’s topography in significant ways.