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Fire Weather

The Making of a Beast

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Fire Weather

Auteur(s): John Vaillant
Narrateur(s): Alan Carlson
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 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing • Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize • Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize • Winner of the 2024 Lane Anderson Award • Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction • Finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction • One of the New York Times’ Top Ten Books of The Year • Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction

A stunning account of the colossal wildfire at Fort McMurray, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian • TIME • The Globe and Mail • The New Yorker • Financial Times • CBC • Smithsonian • Air Mail Weekly • Slate • NPR • Toronto Star • The Washington Post • The Times • Orion Magazine

In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's petroleum industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world.
For hundreds of millennia, fire has been a partner in our evolution, shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic economy. Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened to elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in previously unimaginable ways.
With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America's oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest fires, and into lives forever changed by these disasters. John Vaillant's urgent work is a book for—and from—our new century of fire, which has only just begun. Anthropologie Environnement Nature et écologie Politique Politiques publiques Science Catastrophe naturelle Du contenu qui fait réfléchir
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John Vaillant ‘s book is so good that I read it twice. The author is a brilliant story teller.

A truly gripping beautifully written and well researched book

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I feel guilty living across Canada and not being more aware of what happened in Fort Mac that year. This book is an eye opener not only on this accident but on so many other levels. it's very technical so one might get lost at moments with so much data. There's a lot of specific vocabulary, too. I really hope it reaches a wider audience. My only complaint is the use of imperial units of measurement without the metric. For example, it's hard for me to imagine how hot is anything in Fahrenheit as I don't use it. 100% recommended.

chilling story of a dreadful disaster

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What a wonderful book. Having survived the fire season of 2023 in my area of the globe (North of Fort McMurray) I was looking for information about forest fires, and the interplay of climate change, and honestly and answer to my question: what the hell is going on?

I had heard the author on the radio last year discussing the fires that were happening in our area and I'd made a mental note to read his book.

It did not disappoint. I highly recommend it for anyone living in a WUI, for anyone who is curious, for anyone else who thinks "what the hell is going on" when they look around and everything's on fire. I understand now a bit better the situation and I feel better prepared to deal with another "record-breaking fire season" as will likely happen again soon enough.

Great read, very informative

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Great listen! Highly recommended. listened to it a few times already. Narration was very good too.

Excellent

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Great book and was filled with incredible facts . We , us humans have tipped the scales too far!

Wake Up big corporations

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