Jeff Goodell: I grew up in California in Silicon Valley, but my family, they were conservative. We're not a tree-hugger. He was a professional motorcycle racer and dropped out of college a bunch of times. How old were you when he lost his spleen? 21. Was that the end of your career? No, I kept going after that. And now here's Max with Jeff Goodell.
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.”
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