The Heat Will Kill You First

By Jeff Goodell,

Book cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
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Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times A Next Big Idea Book Club Selection The New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice

Jeff Goodell's "masterful, bracing" (David Wallace-Wells) investigation exposes "through stellar reporting, artful storytelling…

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1 author picked The Heat Will Kill You First as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I read a lot of apocalyptic science fiction, but this is a scarily well-written apocalyptic fact. Jeff writes about a terrifyingly relevant topic today: the heating of the planet.

This is something most of us do not understand at a visceral level. Jeff does a brilliant job using anecdotes, statistics, and just plain great storytelling to describe what happens to humanity in a world where temperatures are inexorably climbing. It is like a punch in the gut and puts the story of a “frog in a slowly boiling pot” into a whole new context.

I have personally changed a lot…

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