Joshua Frank, Jeffrey St. Clair

The world as we know it is undergoing a violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction. The evidence is everywhere: vast droughts that last decades, super-storms and floods that destroy cities, dwindling aquifers, vanishing glaciers, toxic water supplies, raging wildfires, obscure new diseases, vanishing species and indigenous communities. The forces driving this radical transformation are not natural. The earth has been brought to the brink by a greed-based predatory economic system that chews up anything in its path and spits it out to the bitter end. The Big Heat charts the battle lines for the future of the planet, from corporate villains to corrupt politicians and the fearless environmentalists who are standing up against the pillaging. This is an unflinching chronicle of the last fight that really matters.

• publisher: AK Press
• 400 pages
• 2018