The heat wave struck literally at the same week my book came out. I don't know how else to explain it. And I feel really grateful for it. Not, of course, because I understand all the suffering and I've written a lot about the suffering that and death that this heat causes people. But I think that it offers a window of opportunity, you know, to have people read and think about this and learn about this"
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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