"I thought it was just going to be same, same, same,. same, same apocalypse," he says of climate change. "What I did not feel prepared for is the mundaneness of disaster ... and then you also got to go get milk." He worries that we will accept extreme heat waves as a normal part of our lives before realizing how bad they really are.
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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