Jeff Goodell | The Heat Will Kill You First
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- The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first-order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. As the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy and our values. Journalist Jeff Goodall says the basic science is not complicated: Stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, and the global temperature will stop rising tomorrow. Stop burning fossil fuels in 50 years, and the temperature will keep rising for 50 years, making parts of our planet virtually uninhabitable. The hotter it gets, the deeper and wider our fault lines will open.
Goodell's book 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. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90 degrees Fahrenheit to 110 degrees Fahrenheit. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event, one that culls the most vulnerable people; but that is changing-as heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic.
As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell might be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it.
Photo courtesy the speaker.
August 7, 2023
Speakers
Jeff Goodell
Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone ; Author, The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet and The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized ; Twitter @jeffgodell
Andrew Dudley
Co-host and Producer, Earth Live; Chair, People & Nature Member-led Forum, The Commonwealth Club of California-Moderator
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This should be required viewing in all schools, colleges and universities - and should be seen on all the major networks. The latter will never happen, sadly, given who owns them. To paraphrase the old saying, 'You can't get someone to believe in something if their salary or profits depend on their not believing it.'
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Correction, people an hour's drive north of Lake Ontario in Canada are regularly getting Lyme disease. The zone started to reach this area ten years ago. Doctors resisted for a while, but now you can get the antibiotics pretty much as soon as you've been bitten.
Dropping overal immunity causes the susceptibility for Lyme.
Try to save the tick, so it can be tested. Although, you may need to start the meds before testing can be done.
Amazing well done interview. Thank you. I'm sharing this jewel. Should have many millions of views. Every politician on the planet should be introduced to reality.
Thank you for reminding us-many; especially, those who read "The Heat Will Kill You First." You likely saved many of us, like me; those who may never had high heat before as these newer, higher-climates.❤
Thank you for your research and writing. Great information.
Unfortunately preaching to the choir may sell books but it won’t change minds.
We are doomed to suffer at the hands of oligarchs and the ignorant masses they have learned to manipulate.
Stay cool brother.
I know times are tough, but cynicism is the number 1 tool of those in power. They want us to think we're powerless. We aren't. We will win this fight in the long run.
You have been paying attention to human behavior. Hope just ain't gonna cut it, this time.
I fear your assessment is probably the truth.
Definitely felt the extreme heat in south Texas this year worse than previous years. Our political situation has to get better because huge problems like this are knocking at our door. Or rather, breaking down the door because we've ignored the knocking for too long.
In the last two years, because of odd unexpected deep freezes and then record heat summers, we've lost most of our landscaping. Even the trees are starting to die. Maybe that will wake up the naysayers finally because they can literally see it in their own backyards.
Yeah. You do know no politician is in business to help others. None of them. Not even the next ones running for office.
*I drive EV and just purchased solar panels. I charge my own EV at home. I am fortunate enough to afford the EV and equipment. The market really needs to make these things more affordable to lower income people. THIS IS THE KEY TO SUCCESSFULLY MAKING A DENT INTO CO2 BEING RELAEASED INTO OUR ATMOSPHERE. Otherwise not enough people will participate in reduction of CO2 being released into the atmosphere. FYI: Tax subsidies will NOT solely suffice. Otherwise we're just all singing to the choir.*
Unfortunately, the amount of mining required to make enough for everyone, or even half, would turn our world into a toxic dystopia even faster.
Less new stuff is one part of the answer. Like, 95% less stuff for us folk who have access to new tech.
Thank you for sharing this tragic story. May they RIP as a family.
When our internal body temperature is the same as external temperature body organs begin to shut down unless we can cool down our bodies immediately with a cool breeze, sucking on ice, emerging our bodies into cold water, using air conditioning, etc. Most folks are unaware of the seriousness of the Wet Bulb Temperatures, which adds the humidity into the measurement. All these field workers must have a thermos that keeps water 💧 COLD.
Air conditioning is better than nothing. I agree, I loathe AC, yet sometimes it saves lives. ❤😢
Thanks for the information which I hope more people will become aware of soon.
Cooling systems in industrial work less efficiently if wet bulb temperatures get too high. Steam turbines for power generation will not work if you don’t Have sufficient cooling capabilities. No one ever speaks of this. So in heat waves in the future there may be power failures and therefore no air conditioning, tens of thousand will die from the heat.
Exactly, your HVAC system is worthless without power generation.
THANK YOU!❤ for reminding us about our differences of water ZONES; as also recently, sharing about death of a family; two children & their parents on a HOT day.😢
Someone brilliantly said : don’t think of this (2023) as the hottest year of the last hundred years BUT as the coolest year of the NEXT hundred years.
I regularly tell my younger co-workers to enjoy the cool weather while it lasts. There's going to come a time when the heat of summer simply does not go away even come November. Buckle up fellow earthlings. It's going to get terribly interesting.
I’m thinking of a liquid cooled body suit for working outside. Like the ones in DUNE.
@@donnavorce8856your lips to God's ear 🏝
Game Over.
He cites a lot of "ifs" but, unfortunately for us, the big "if" is ....... "If we only had more time. If we hadn't wasted so much of it". Yeah, there are a lot of things which wold help a little and together might help a fair amount...... if we had more time to implement and for the planet to respond. But we don't.
And when the water 8n the bay is 100f like it was 8n Florida this year?
On the subject of sweating as we get older our sweat glands cease to work properly. On hot days I just walk around with soaking wet clothes on - I'm a pensioner so do not have to go to work.
Fossil fuels are getting subsidies. Today I found an estimate that the oil industry got $1 trillion worldwide in 2022 -- and that was one of the lower estimates. These subsidies seem to be concentrated on developing countries, which fits with the goal of locking in fossil fuels there for another 30 or 40 years.
Planetary heating. Human roasting.
Mmm. I’m hungry now!
In the part where he is describing how heat affects various species he should add corals, when water is too warm, corals will expel the algae (zooxanthellae) living in their tissues causing the coral to turn completely white. This is called coral bleaching. Then some live and some die, particularly if they keep getting hit by oceanic heat waves.
Belief over evidence is the greatest danger to civilization.
I get why he didn't elaborate on Goldilocks Zone.
At best he's appropriating the space science term for a new unrelated use meaning Human Comfort Zone
At worst completely disingenuous. Saying we're leaving Goldilocks Zone implies we're leaving Habitability.
Maybe Cretaceous Thermal Maximum would be a bit much at +15
+4 is no threat to Habitability. Some people won't make it. Habitable ks mkt same as Optimal
I hate all the lies in this field
*is not the same
Is he going to bring up the spraying of our sky’s? Scalar waves? HARP.?
No. Because it's not a thing. BTW, it's HAARP. And it is nothing to worry about.
I believe the discussion is about climate.
@@chrismullin8304HAARP was noted to heat ionosphere
Chemtrail could overlap or just be unauthorized geoengineering for decades.