Author: Jeff Goodell

Jeff Goodell’s “The Heat Will Kill You First”  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. 

A heat wave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event — one that culls out the most vulnerable people.  But that is changing. As heat waves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic.

Mixing the latest scientific insight with on-the-ground storytelling, Goodell tackles the big questions and uncovers how extreme heat is a force beyond anything we have reckoned with before.