The Importance of Coming Close to Death

Jeff Goodell is a climate change writer for Rolling Stone and the author of seven books. His new book is The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.

“I would not have said this even five years ago, but I have really come to see this now as a crime story. This is a kind of looting of the atmosphere of the earth, siphoning off resources and grossly profiting off of that at the expense of many other people—billions of people—on this planet. And I understand that’s a big thing to say, but I think it’s just pretty obviously true. … I don’t mean that personally that each one of them personally is a criminal. We are all complicit in this.”

Show notes:

• @jeffgoodell
• jeffgoodellwriter.com
• Goodell on Longform
• Goodell’s Rolling Stone archive
• 11:00 “Who’s a Hero Now?” (New York Times Magazine • July 2003)
• 15:00 The Water Will Come (Back Bay Books • 2018)
• 15:00 Big Coal (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • 2006)

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