Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Heat Wave!
The Southern California heat isn’t just unpleasant, it’s dangerous. In the United States, extreme heat now kills more people each year than tornadoes, hurricanes, or flooding. And thanks to global warming, it could get worse. But there are some fairly simple solutions that could cool cities down and slow the increase of heat-related deaths.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe Southern California heat isn’t just unpleasant, it’s dangerous. In the United States, extreme heat now kills more people each year than tornadoes, hurricanes, or flooding. And thanks to global warming, it could get worse. But there are some fairly simple solutions that could cool cities down and slow the increase of heat-related deaths.
