The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet - Paperback

by Jeff Goodell
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller!

New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents an important examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offering a vital new perspective on where we are headed, how we can prepare, and what is at stake if we fail to act.​

"Masterful, bracing" (David Wallace-Wells)

"When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived ... The sun feels like the barrel of a gun pointed at you."

The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is not complicated: Stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, and the global temperature will stop rising tomorrow. Stop burning fossil fuels in 50 years, and the temperature will keep rising for 50 years, making parts of our planet virtually uninhabitable. It's up to us. The hotter it gets, the deeper and wider our fault lines will open.

The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90 F to 110 F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event--one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that is changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic.

As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell's new book may be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it. Masterfully reported, mixing the latest scientific insight with on-the-ground storytelling, Jeff Goodell tackles the big questions and uncovers how extreme heat is a force beyond anything we have reckoned with before.

Selected as one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and The Economist.

Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing.
ISBN9780316497558
Author Jeff Goodell
PublisherBack Bay Books
GenreEducation
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages416
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet - Paperback

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About Jeff Goodell

Jeff Goodell's latest book is The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet. He is the author of six previous books, including The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, which was a New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017. He has covered climate change for more than two decades at Rolling Stone and discussed climate and energy issues on NPR, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, ABC, NBC, Fox News and The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and a Contributing Writer at Rolling Stone, where he was written about energy and climate change for more than a decade.

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