The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence

“A landmark work on perhaps the essential question of our time.”—David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth

As a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has been chased by kidnappers, badly beaten, detained by police, and told, in no uncertain terms, that he was no longer welcome in certain countries. Yet these personal brushes with violence are simply a hint of the conflict simmering in our warming world.

Schwartzstein has visited ravaged Iraqi towns where IS...