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How the fear of fire is taking control of us

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:08
Publish Date: 2025-05-27 17:10:00
Description:

Humans used fire as a tool. Now we fear its destruction. But we're responsible for changing the climate, argues John Vailliant, "in a way that favours fire way more than it favours us." The Vancouver author unpacks how fire made humans who we are — and how humans are changing fire in his award-winning book, Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast.*This episode originally aired on May 29, 2024.

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