David Azevedo died due to the warmth. A building employee residing in a small metropolis in central France, he had just lately began a brand new job when a heatwave struck in the summertime of 2022. He wouldn’t even see out his first week.
The journalist Samira Shackle interviews his sister Anne-Marie about what occurred, and the way her household have feared each heatwave since.
And because the surroundings author Jeff Goodell explains to Michael Safi, we stay in societies poorly tailored to the local weather we have now created, from the hours we work, to the meals we develop and the cities we construct.
{Photograph}: Courtesy of the Azevedo household
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