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

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for The Los Angles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times A Next Big Idea Book Club Selection The New York Times Book Review Editors Choice NPR Favorite Books of the Year Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year The Economist Best Books of the Year Jeff Goodells masterful, bracing (David Wallace-Wells) investigation exposes through stellar reporting, artful storytelling and fascinating scientific explanations (Naomi Klein) an explosive new understanding of heat and the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and on our planet. Entertaining and thoroughly researched, (Al Gore), it will completely change the way you see the world, and despite its urgent themes, is injected with eternal optimism (Michael Mann) on how to combat one of the most important issues of our time. When heat comes, its invisible. It doesnt bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know its 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. Its 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