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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Our book today in the Tom Hartman book club is Warmth by Daniel Sheryl, a subtitle coming of

age at the end of our world. And this is from the first chapters title correspondence.

On April 14th, 2018, a civil rights lawyer named David Buckle burned himself alive in prospect

park. He did it alone just before sunrise, a brief illumination on a peripheral lawn.

A cyclist found his body in a circle of char, though she had to pass by several times to be

sure of what she'd seen. Later, she told reporters, it was hard to make myself believe it.

The suicide was well planned, even courteous. Buckle had cleared a ring of dirt around himself

to keep the flame some spreading. I apologize to you for the mess, read a note found by the police

in a shopping cart next to the scene. A long letter had already been emailed out to the press.

This was quote, an early death by fossil fuel, it read. It reflects what we are doing to ourselves.

I spent most of that day across town and central park. I remember it was gorgeous outside and

the lakes were all crowded with row boats, little schools of them flitting back and forth behind

the curtain of the willows. I found a perch on top of a small hill and watched the road loop

swell with people. Somewhere out of sight, a stoplight was releasing them in pulses. The tourists

in their carriages, the cyclists, the loping rollerbladers. They passed quickly and suddenly,

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