Explaining Brazil

How to recover from the Brumadinho dam collapse

Jan 30, 2019 · 23 min · 11.2 MB
0:00-23:19

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On January 25, an iron tailings dam near the town of Brumadinho, in the Southeastern state of Minas Gerais, spilled the equivalent of at least 12 hundred Olympic-sized pools of mud onto the surrounding region. - How did this happen? - Who is to blame? - What will be the lasting environmental consequences? - And, most importantly, how can we prevent this from happening again? Read show notes. — 

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