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Why Treating Heat Like an Emergency Could Finally Save Lives


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At the end of every summer, Las Vegans add another notch to their belt — when you're here for the long haul, you learn to live with the heat. But the long stretches of extreme heat that we're experiencing is new: Reno and Las Vegas are the country's two fastest-warming cities, and the number of heat-related deaths is growing every year. Legislators from the Southwest are trying to get extreme heat classified as a natural disaster, but why is it so hard to address? Co-host Dayvid Figler talks with Ariel Choinard, coordinator of the Nevada Heat Lab at the Desert Research Institute about the solutions that do and don't work, what we can learn from other cities, and how to respond to climate change naysayers.

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