Fire weather : the making of a beast / John Vaillant.
Material type: TextPublication details: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.Description: 415 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780735273160 (hardcover)
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300 - 399 | West Grey Durham Branch Shelves | Non-fiction | 363.379 VAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 09/24/2024 | 33321003203222 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A stunning, panoramic exploration of the symbiotic relationship between humans and combustion and why we are entering a new century of fire. In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta--the seat of the Canadian oil industry, from which the U.S. derives almost half its oil imports--burned to the ground. The unprecedented disaster forced 88,000 people from their homes and showed us what the fires of the future look like: increasingly destructive, already here. While the chemistry and physics of wildfires remain unchanged over the last century and a half, climate change has created conditions that give fire exponentially more opportunity to burn. And yet there is no other natural force or element over which we have such a compelling illusion of control. Fire yearns, above all, for freedom, and takes at any opportunity and at any cost. In our unchecked consumption of fossil fuels, it has enabled the same impulses in us. In masterly prose and cinematic style, John Vaillant weaves together an enthralling, multifaceted story of how Fort McMurray revealed a new normal of fires burning longer and with greater intensity than at any other time this planet has ever known. From the large-scale histories of North American resource extraction and climate science, to the intimate tales of lives scarred by the Fort McMurray disaster, Valliant's urgent work is a book for--and from--our new century of fire.""-- Provided by publisher.
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