Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene
With human-caused climate change making lands hotter and drier, we are increasingly living in flammable landscapes. In an era of climate-driven megafires, how can we better live with fire, rather than always fighting it?
Climate One · Climate One from The Commonwealth Club
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Show Notes
We’ve experienced yet another summer of record wildfires in the western U.S., endangering lives, displacing communities, and sending unhealthy smoke across the nation.
The science is clear: human-caused climate change is making lands more conducive to burning, and we are increasingly living in flammable landscapes. Forest experts say there are tools to help reduce the risk of catastrophic fires, keep forests alive as valuable carbon sinks and make communities more resilient to megafires. But we may also have to become accustomed to more fire – and smoke – in our lives.
How can we better live with fire, including using it as a tool, rather than always fighting it?
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Guests:
Stephen Pyne, author, The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next
Susan Husari, member of the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection
Chad T. Hanson, author, Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate
Jaime Lowe, author, Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires
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