Heat

What to do when the temperature on the thermometer just keeps rising — and may never come back down.

The planet is warming, and humanity is grappling with the intensifying effects of climate change: drought, floods, rising sea levels… However, global warming also has a much more immediate impact on individuals, society, and global systems – it's simply getting hotter. And heatwaves, along with the rising average temperature, are beginning to take their toll, not only on human health but also on the animal and plant kingdoms, on increasingly demanding and expensive agriculture, or in the form of faster-spreading viruses and diseases, increased migration, and technological challenges. The book *The Heat Will Kill You First* explores all these phenomena, explains how heatwaves actually form, maps their consequences across the globe, and, with the help of scientists, farmers, and ordinary people, seeks ways to confront them. In the coming decades, no one on the planet will be able to escape the problem of ever-increasing heat.

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Through first-rate reporting, narrative artistry, and the skill to explain scientific findings in an engaging way, Goodell portrays heat as a force capable of reshaping the world. In his compelling account, rising temperature emerges as an invisible planetary driver, under whose pressure landscapes, organisms, and social systems are already finding themselves at the limits of their capabilities.
— Naomi Klein, author of *This Changes Everything*