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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: John Vaillant confronts the climate-induced brutality of modern wildfires
Description: John Vaillant is the award-winning author of bestselling nonfiction books like The Golden Spruce and The Tiger. He’s written articles for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic and The Walrus. His latest book—Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast—is focused on how the conditions that human beings have created through the burning of fossil fuels and the acceleration of capitalist development are producing the sorts of enormous wildfires that we’re seeing right now.
So far this year 2.7m hectares have burned across Canada, compared to the roughly 150 thousand that we typically expect. That’s an increase o...