At the same time, for billions of years, the Earth has experienced things like volcanic eruptions and meteor strikes that brought about these wild temperature swings.
I mean, it definitely takes the step up from global warming. MOSLEY: What you write in this book is - it's frightening. It's like - it doesn't capture the scope and scale of what we're dealing with. It's like, OK, who's really against it being a little bit warmer? And like, OK, so I can spend more time at the lake, you know. You know, the problem with the phrase global warming is that it sounds like better beach weather. You know, climate crisis is something that I think comes close to capturing, you know, the sort of larger scale of things. That is what kind of the book is about in some ways. GOODELL: Well, you know, I think that the language to capture what we're experiencing is very difficult. What would be a better term for what we are experiencing right now? Because you think they don't really encapsulate what is happening. You've got a problem, though, with the terms global warming and climate change to describe why we are experiencing heat of this magnitude. MOSLEY: What a descriptive way to illustrate how the heat impacts us. You can imagine fire even before you see it. Birds vanish from the sky and take refuge in deep shade. The sun feels like the barrel of a gun pointed at you. It just surrounds you and works on you in ways that you can't anticipate or control. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived. (Reading) When the heat comes, it's invisible. MOSLEY: I think the best way for us to get into this topic might be for you to read the first opening lines of your book. He's a New York Times best-selling author of seven books, including "The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities And The Remaking Of The Civilized World." His latest book, "The Heat Will Kill You First: Life And Death On A Scorched Planet," is out now. Jeff Goodell is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and has covered climate change for more than a decade. And no bones about it, says Goodell, extreme heat is almost entirely caused by our use of fossil fuels, from our transportation, heating and manufacturing, and it's warming the Earth in ways that none of us will be able to escape. In his new book, "The Heat Will Kill You First," Jeff Goodell wants us to look at heat not as a minor inconvenience, but as an active force that can kill us even before we understand our lives are at risk. The Earth is getting hotter, and turning up the AC to solve it or hoping it will pass is wishful thinking, says writer Jeff Goodell. And if it feels more miserable than ever before, that's because it is. And somewhere in the world right now, you're probably trying to beat the summer heat or bracing for it.
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