Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World (1st Edition)

"Thinking about climate change, many of us picture the catastrophic effects that the science has shown are sure to come if we don't act, and we often hear that global temperatures are rising at increasing and alarming rates.

While those trends of rising temperatures will certainly bring about catastrophe if allowed to continue, they are also already having devastating effects right now.

This book will focus on the economic implications of heat events happening now, and the warming that is already certain to come over the next 20 to 30 years.

The book will focus on the hidden inequalities that have for long lain in plain sight: the way a heat wave, for instance, may barely be noticed by most office workers but pose potentially life-threatening risks for landscapers and construction crews, even within the same zip code.

Economist Jisung Park argues that what's missing in the debate on climate change are answers to more practical questions