the other was in freetown. so they have to cross the atlantic to take a ship to trial -- >> all of that suffering -- >> usually the africans would go with the ship. this is an exception to the case. the africans would travel the atlantic three times. and then the ship is given to the slave traders to send back to cuba, and the slave ship continues to operate for years. >> such an irony. to make the slave trade illegal, it made it more deadly in many ways. oh my goodness. >> there are lots of consequences. >> i want you to talk about one other element of the book before we get to questions. one of the things i loved about the book, and i would have said this. it is not just about all these abstract process seasoned abstract numbers of people dying. it's about real people and real ships and real places. i would like to ask you to just briefly talk about three of them. you start chapters with these stories. the first is the ship which was 1825. this is a slave ship that had a terrible outbreak of everything. dysen

seven max was grounded after two crashesawc narrator: on this episode of "earth focus," two cities-- freetownnd san francisco, california-- continents apart, vastly different culturally and economically, yet facing the same struggle to adapt to rapid urbanization, all set against the backdrop of a dramatically changing climate. [film advance clicking]

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needed to go to get out of the country or to the city with the icu because there was not one in freetown. that's what shocks my friends and critical care and then you say there is no functioning icu in the whole country. so we go to a small town and amazingly only three doses of c mapper on the continent and a refrigerator just a few yards where he lay dying in and started a big debate if he should get the z map. again i tried to make it clear to the reader that i don't know have a believe to think it would've saved to more than the nonspecific therapies that she would have received one of the reasons the story with viral instead of the nonspecific supportive care story that were taken by plane or helicopter they were taken to medical missionaries and i say more power to them and doctor brantley who survived think god was also airlifted to emory in atlanta. so again is not possible to say whether the nonspecific critical care saved him which seems more likely with as the map the antibody collection. when he didn't go to the most prominent doctor. and to go to americans and liberia. had a

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narrator: on this episode of "earth focus," two cities-- freetown, sierra leone, and san francisco, california-- continents apart, vastly different culturally and economically, yet facing the same struggle to adapt to rapid urbanization, all set against the backdrop of a dramatically changing climate. [film advance clicking] man: oh, no! woman: the red cross says more than 600 people are now missing and that more than 200 have been killed after heavy rain caused a severe mudslide in the west african nation of sierra leone. [car horns honking] [insects chirping] amarasekaren: oo oo oo! what's happening? what's happening? no big problem, huh? ok. when we get problem... man: whoa! [men shouting] [indistinct conversation] narrator: while freetown residents fight for accountability, in san francisco, climate change isn't debated as much as it's mitigated. billions of dollars are pouring into the bay area, but is tech-driven development prepared for a sea level that's rising? scholl: san francisco is experiencing a tremendous building boom and has been for the last 5 years. tam: we have ucsf hospita