The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
TLDR: “Not quite what I was looking for. All dire warnings with no real solutions.”
This is another book like On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America. It’s about all the bad things that will happen when the Earth heats up.
Also like that book, it doesn’t really have any solutions beyond what’s been discussed already It just explains how things are going to get bad. Crops won’t grow, people will die from exposure, economies will dry up, people will migrate, conflict will result, etc.
It was well-written, but I was a little detached from it. It’s just relentlessly gloomy. I don’t know if that’s inaccurate, or if that’s just the reality of the situation now. The book is lots of anecdotes and stories that illustrate the mess we’re in.
What I’m really looking for, I think, is a book about mass migration due to climate change. Like, where are going to all end up, how are borders going to change, and what parts of the planet will be unlivable?
That’s the book I think I’m trying to find.
Book Data
- Author
- Jeff Goodell
- Year
- Pages
- 400
- Acquired
- Not recorded
- Open Library
- OL34053215W
- Wikipedia
- The_Heat_Will_Kill_You_First
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