| THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST Life and Death on a Scorched Planet Jeff Goodell Little, Brown and Company (July 11, 2023) |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0316497572 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0316497576 | 400pp. | HC/BWI | $29.00 | |
| Page 132: | " 'If this heat keeps up,' he said, heading out beyond the strip malls into agricultural land, 'broccoli and cauliflower is going to start bolting..." |
| Number error: S/B "are". |
| Page 152: | "Along the coast of Tasmania, giant kelp once stretched over 9 million square kilometers. Today, thanks to warmer water and a subsequent invasion of urchins, the kelp covers fewer than 500,000 meters." |
| Missing word: S/B "500,000 square meters". |
| Page 179: | "Seventy percent of the Earth's water is frozen here in ice sheets..." |
| Missing word: S/B "fresh water". |
| Page 229: | "The political ramifications of this demographic shift to the Sun Belt was enormous." |
| Number error: S/B "were". |
| Page 243: | "Water vendors load up their carts full of containers of water, which they then delivered around town." |
| Verb tense: S/B "loaded". The verbs in the rest of the paragraph are past tense. |
| Page 294: | "Rapidly melting ice sheets in the Arctic also accelerates sea-level rise..." |
| Number error: S/B "accelerate". |
| Page 281: | "It was first called the Avenue des Tuileries and was lined with elm and horse chestnut trees that cut through fields and market gardens." |
| Wording: S/B "Lined with elm and horse chestnut trees, it was first called the Avenue des Tuileries, and it cut through". (One possible revision) |
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