fire

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Two Contagions, One Opportunity to Reboot our Approach

  by Steve Pyne

  Outbursts of megafires resemble emerging diseases because they are typically the outcome of broken biotas – a ruinous interaction between people and nature that unhinges the old checks and balances. 

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• 1/12/20
  

  The History of Fire: An interview with Stephen Pyne

  by Matthew Crawford

  "Fire is a creation of the living world, but we have defined it as a phenomenon for physics and chemistry...we’ve mostly ignored the ideas and institutions that shape the social half of the equation."

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• 9/1/19
  

  Searching for El Dorado: The Colonial Fantasy of the Amazon

  by Ed Simon

  There is a direct ideological thread that runs from the early explorers of the Caribbean and South America and the current environmental catastrophe unfolding in the Brazilian rainforest as fire burns its way across the length of a land which was once called paradise. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  8/23/19
  

  Environmentalists Have Been Warning About Amazon Fires for Decades.

  The climate change that TIME in the 1980s warned might be possible has already come to pass, and the damage it causes is starkly plain.

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• 8/25/19
  

  Winter Isn’t Coming. Prepare for the Pyrocene.

  by Steve Pyne

  What does a full-blown fire age look like? We’re about to find out.

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• 12-7-16
  

  What the East Needs to Learn from the West about Devastating Fires

  by Stephen J. Pyne

  For decades it was convenient to treat those outbreaks as a freak of nature. No more.