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Can’t Stand the Heat

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The 4th of July was the hottest day yet—not just of the summer but of recorded human history. Between waves of Canadian wildfire smoke, malaria reappearing in the United States, and deaths from heat, this might be the year that we’re forced to reckon with what life will be like on our newly hotter planet.


Guest: Jeff Goodell, contributing writer at Rolling Stone and the author of the upcoming book The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.


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I called up Jeff Goudelle because I wanted a kind of weather report.

0:51.0

Jeff lives in Austin, Texas.

0:54.0

And when I reached him, he told me it was relatively cool outside.

0:58.0

And by that, I mean 90s.

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90s is cool?

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Yeah, when you see a number with only two judges instead of three,

1:07.0

it feels like the depths of winter.

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Jeff has spent the last few weeks sweltering under the Texas heat dome.

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It's so hot that when he goes to his car, he says,

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