Jeff Goodell is an author and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he has covered climate change for more than two decades. His most recent book is “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet,” a New York Times bestseller. Goodell’s six previous books include “Big Coal,” “How to Cool the Planet,” and “The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World,” a New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017. He was a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and 2016 New America Fellow, and he discusses climate and energy issues on NPR, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, ABC, NBC and Fox News.
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