#jeff goodell

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genpadalecki

Beautiful art, beautiful people!

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Heat, much like the Covid pandemic, exposes and exacerbates existing structural and racial inequalities in housing, wages, healthcare, mobility and access to solutions. One of Goodell’s biggest fears is that the world will adapt to heat deaths much like it did with Covid. “Covid showed us how much death we’re willing to tolerate. I am concerned that we’ll simply adapt to the chaos and tragedy and accept 60,000 people dying every summer, and we’ll forget that we created this climate and that we have control over it.”

Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns

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I’ve been reading this for my book group(RFB). Just finished it. It is an incredibly horrifying book. Especially after the heat of this summer here in central Texas. He tries to take a positive note at the end, but on the whole it leaves me in fear for us all—“my god what have I done”

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Can We Survive Extreme Heat?

Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come. The real question is not whether superheated cities are sustainable. With enough money and engineering skill, you can sustain life on Mars. The issue is, sustainable for whom?

“As the mercury rises, people die. The homeless cook to death on hot sidewalks. Older folks, their bodies unable to cope with the metabolic stress of extreme heat, suffer heart attacks and strokes. Hikers collapse from dehydration. As the climate warms, heat waves are growing longer, hotter, and more frequent. Since the 1960s, the average number of annual heat waves in 50 major American cities has tripled. They are also becoming more deadly. Last year, there were 181 heat-related deaths in Arizona’s Maricopa County, nearly three times the number from four years earlier. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2004 and 2017, about a quarter of all weather-related deaths were caused by excessive heat, far more than other natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes.”

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Climate Change Journalist Warns: 'Mother Nature Is Playing By Different Rules Now'

Author Jeff Goodell says that American cities are under threat from extreme weather, rising sea levels and lax enforcement of environmental regulations. “These hurricanes, the storms that we’ve seen this season are an indicator that we’re moving into this new age when these old rules of how our climate works are off-the-table, and Mother Nature is playing by different rules now,” Goodell says. His new book is The Water Will Come. 

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19 trillion gallons of water fell from the sky in five days, roughly a million gallons for every person in southeast Texas.

Jeff Goodell, from Rolling Stone article “Houston: A Global Warning”

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genpadalecki About last weekend… Had the privilege of getting up close and personal at the @blantonmuseum with renowned journalist @jeffgoodell Jeff and museum director @simonewicha . The exhibit, If the Sky Were Orange, is an extraordinary amalgamation of science and art on the very exigent and challenging topic of climate change. Curated by the masterful, prolific, and talented journalist Jeff Goodell, it was eye-opening having a translator of the climate change movement walk us through the doorways and halls of this creation. Equally inspiring, Simone expounding on the pieces themselves was SUCH. A. TREAT. I implore you to get your butts to the Blanton — it’s only there until Feb 11, so hustle! Oh and if you want to explore more on this hot topic, pick up Jeff’s book, The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.

They finally found a place with high enough ceilings for Jared, lol!