03219cam a2200313 4500 860386763 TxAuBib 20230620120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593740507 0593740505 6af57512-a596-4d78-a30c-f25087b92acd OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9350414 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Vaillant, John. Fire Weather [Libby] : A True Story from a Hotter World. Books on Tape, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 393MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 393MB. Nature. Science. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:A stunning account of a colossal wildfire 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 “Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page…Captures the majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters.” —David Wallace-Wells, #1 bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil 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. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of maps, images, and charts from the book.. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-06-19 20:00:03. Carlson, Alan. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6af57512-a596-4d78-a30c-f25087b92acd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6af57512-a596-4d78-a30c-f25087b92acd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)