In Part One of Climate Deadline, Walker, Mark, and Alex discuss just how supremely f*cked the planet is in the context of three important books on climate change. Plus, birds are freaking dinosaurs!! 

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Books discussed: 

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton http://royscranton.com/books/learning-to-die-in-the-anthropocene 

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185 

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells