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Heat: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A searing examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and what we can do to stop it, by the author of The Water Will Come When heat comes, it’s invisible. It doesn’t bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it’s arrived ... The sun feels like the barrel of a gun pointed at you. The world is waking up to a new reality: once-in-a-century floods are now happening three times a year; bushfires are the new norm. The surface area of the Arctic’s polar ice caps is rapidly decreasing, while Antarctica’s largest ice shelf is crumbling. These are effects of the planet’s increased temperature. Extreme heat is the most direct and deadly consequence of our hellbent consumption of fossil fuels. It is a first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it will reveal fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. This book 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

Who reads Heat: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet?

Author

Jeff Goodell

Publisher

Black Inc.

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781760642655

Category

nonfiction