| This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on web readership.  Photographer: Brandon Bell/Getty Images In his must-read book The Heat Will Kill You First, author Jeff Goodell talks to an Arizona State University infrastructure expert about the likelihood of a "Hurricane Katrina of extreme heat," an event in which a power failure during a heat wave kills thousands of people, with government authorities dangerously unprepared. The expert calls such an event about as likely as another intense hurricane hitting New Orleans: "It's more a question of when, not if." As a matter of fact, a Heat Katrina may already be happening, just in slow motion. In Arizona's Maricopa County, home to the capital of Phoenix, nearly 2,000 people have died of heat-related deaths in the past five years. Built in a desert with limited water supplies and expanding rapidly, Phoenix, once called "the world's least-sustainable city," might be an extreme case. But it's also a cautionary tale of what to expect as the planet warms and tests the boundaries of human survivability.
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