Another Take: What can humanity do about heatwaves?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on June 13, 2024. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
It's still spring in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but the world faces scorching hot temperatures. Summer heat has arrived early, setting records, claiming lives, and expected to get worse. Who's responsible and what should be done about it?
In this episode:
- Johan Rockström (@jrockstrom) – Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell) – Author of The Heat Will Kill You First
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Marthe van der Wolf. The original production team was Sarí el-Khalili and Khaled Soltan, with Ashish Malhotra, Tamara Khandaker and our host, Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Aya Elmileik is lead of audience engagement. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, it's Marta van der Wolf, coming to you with another take, where we bring you episodes from the past. |
| 0:18.2 | Summer has only just begun in Europe, but already 2,300 people have died |
| 0:24.6 | from heat-related causes in less than two weeks. At the same time, wildfires are tearing |
| 0:32.1 | through countries like Syria, Greece, Turkey, and France as temperaturesar. Other parts of the Mediterranean are under |
| 0:40.7 | emergency alerts. In the United States, heat waves are causing more frequent power outages |
| 0:47.2 | at stations across the country, and in China, heat alerts have been issued in several regions |
| 0:53.5 | because of the ongoing record heat wave. |
| 0:57.0 | Back in 2024, during another year of record temperatures, the take asked, what can humanity do about heat waves? |
| 1:06.0 | Here's that episode again. None of the dates or other references have changed from June 13, 2024. |
| 1:22.3 | Today, it's about to be the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere on record. |
| 1:28.5 | Again, |
| 1:30.0 | A heat wave in India has led to at least 41 deaths. |
| 1:33.6 | Mexico's brutal heatwave is not sparing anyone. |
| 1:37.0 | The US joins a number of southern European nations in the grip of a heat wave. |
| 1:42.0 | From Dallas to New Delhi, how will people get through another hot summer? |
| 1:49.5 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take. |
| 1:59.0 | The Science is clear and has been communicated for the past 30 years, and still we're not moving the right direction. |
| 2:07.4 | I don't get depressed. I get angry. |
| 2:12.0 | This is world-renowned Swedish scientist Johann Rockstrom in the Netflix documentary Breaking Boundaries, |
| 2:18.5 | The Science of Our Planet. |
| 2:20.9 | He's an author and professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam. |
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