Lecture d’intérêt : Heat, A Global History

“ I argue that not only is there a difference in intensity between warming and heating, but also a crucial difference in kind: nobody really suffers from “global warming,” which is an abstraction. Instead, we suffer from more immediate causes of human distress—waves

of heat and cold, desertification, droughts, floods, storms, and more. In this book I argue that many scientific methods of accounting for heat, expressed through the shorthand phrases “global warming” and “climate change,”have actually desensitized us to environmental overheating. They are, ironically, part of the story of how the global middle classes grew numb as the world got hotter.”

Extrait de Heat, A Global History, On Barak.