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In the long run extreme heat is an extinction force. All life has a temperature limit, even the

microbes that thrive in the thermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, even things

that aren't alive like your phone or the server farms that power the internet.

They have limits.

Those are the words of today's guest, a journalist and award-winning author who has covered climate change for more than two decades.

From his cheerily titled latest volume, The Heat Will Kill You First.

Welcome to the banker Jeff Goodall.

Thank you for having me. Jeff, you say that one of your primary aims in writing the book is to make the reader think of heat differently.

Because culturally people, especially people who live in their sort of developed largely

temperate zones in the northern hemisphere, tend to think of heat as a desirable thing.

How much of an obstacle is that actually?

I think it's a huge obstacle.

We do think of heat as a desirable thing. I think a lot of people, you know, when they go on vacations, they want to go to the beach, they want to go to a warm place, they want to put on a bathing suit and flip-flops and lay in the sun, it feels good.

And, you know, our perceptions about heat

are further kind of tweaked by the way

we use the words in our language, you know,

if you go to a bar and you meet an attractive person

sometimes you call them hot right you know the way our media covers heat is by showing not images of people in emergency rooms with

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