![]() ![]() This is the riveting and illuminating story of Australian writer Anthony Ham’s extraordinary journey into the world of lions. Stories from the frontline in the battle to save a species. “A stunningly powerful call to political leaders everywhere who hear the warnings of the devastating impacts of climate change on health but fail to act” – Dr Helen Haines “A climate emergency tour de force” – Dr Bob Brown Respected journalist Paddy Manning tells these stories of tragedy and loss, heroism and resilience, in a book that is both monument and warning. As Body Count shows, we are now all in extremis, and it is time to act. In extremis, people often act to save their loved ones above themselves. These are stories of humans at their most vulnerable, and also often at their best. Donna Rice and her 13-year-old son Jordan. Most importantly, Manning has spoken to survivors and the families of victims, creating a monument to those we have already lost. In each case, he has interviewed scientists to explore the link to climate change and asks how – indeed, whether – we can better prepare ourselves in the future. He revisits some headline events which might have faded in our memory – the Brisbane Floods of 2011 Melbourne’s thunderstorm asthma fatalities of 2016 – and brings to our attention less well-publicised killers: the soil-borne diseases that amplify after a flood the fact that heat itself has killed more people than all other catastrophes put together. ![]() In this detailed, considered, compassionate book, Paddy Manning paints us the big picture. Medical officers have been warning of a health emergency as temperatures rise for years, and for at least a decade Australians have been dying from the plagues of climate change – from heat, flood, disease, smoke. Suddenly, when the country caught fire, people realised what the government has not: that climate change is killing us.īut climate deaths didn’t start in 2019. ![]()
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