- Title:
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Heat: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (MP3)
- Written by:
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Jeff Goodell
- Read by:
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Dominic Gruenewald
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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10 hours
- MP3 size:
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433 MB
- Published:
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August 01 2023
- Available Date:
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August 01 2023
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781038647269
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Climate; Environment & Conservation; Nature; Science & Technology
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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New York Times bestselling author
Award winning journalist
A searing examination of the impact that temperature rises will have on our lives and what we can do to stop it by the New York Times bestselling author of The Water Will Come.
The world is waking up to a new reality: once-in-a-century floods are now happening three times a year and 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 audiobook is about the extreme ways 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 go from 30°C to 43°C. A heatwave, Jeff Goodell explains, is a predatory event – one that culls out the most vulnerable people.
'Heat is a masterful, bracing, vivid portrait of the future.'
David Wallace-Wells, author of The New York Times bestseller The Uninhabitable Earth
'This searing plea for a better, fairer and cooler future should be read by anyone with skin in the game – which is every single one of us.'
Naomi Klein, international bestselling author of This Changes Everything and On Fire
'Meticulously researched ... this is at once a portrait of a heat-disrupted world and a primer for how to prepare for it.'
Amitav Ghosh, author of The Nutmeg’s Curse and The Great Derangement
'Heat is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future.'
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction
'A mix of fantastic storytelling, lucid science communication, and eternal optimism in detailing the profound threat we face with the climate crisis and what we can still do about it.'
Michael Mann, author of The New Climate War