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Cargando... The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planetpor Jeff Goodell
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In 14 whirlwind chapters, Goodell, a longtime climate journalist and contributing editor for Rolling Stone, earns his book’s grim title. The chapters travel from the Arctic Circle to the tropics and back again, tracing the effects of heat on melting ice and suffering corals, but also on enthused mosquitoes, whose ranges are stretching wider as temperatures warm....The scariest thing about the heat-infused future, Goodell notes, is that we don’t treat it with the respect and concern it deserves. When the heat rises, plants, animals and people die. But the coronavirus pandemic showed just how much death and destruction a society can accept. Suffering and death “will become part of what it means to live in the twenty-first century,” Goodell writes. “Something we accept.” Fast-paced ... Terrifying ... Goodell’s stripped-down style suits his subject. This is a propulsive book, one to be raced through; the planet is burning, and we are running out of time ... Reads like the hard-boiled sequel to Goodell’s previous book, The Water Will Come. Global warming and rising sea levels are connected, with disastrous effects ... Complacency would only compound the horror, which perhaps explains the tenor of this book. In this gripping examination, Goodell, a Rolling Stone contributing editor and author of The Water Will Come and Big Coal, demonstrates the deleterious effects of rising temperatures and the frightening possibilities of what lies ahead if we don’t take immediate, globally coordinated action. Rather than simply providing scientific data to support his claims, the author provides an intimate look at the effects of our planet's warming on individual lives....Yet another stark, crucial reminder that we are running out of time to save humankind. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90? F to 110?F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event--one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that is changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic. As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell's new book may be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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