Fire Weather

By John Vaillant,

Book cover of Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast

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1 author picked Fire Weather as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Another Canadian story, this time of the terrible fire and evacuation of Fort McMurray, a few years back. Fort McMurray is a town completely and utterly entwined with the energy sector. This book starts off telling us all about that. It is enough to make you feel queasy, the way the earth is treated, so violently, with such disregard for ecosystems, and creatures and everything that is beautiful in the north.

The colossal fire, that caused the evacuation of an entire city, then burned a large portion of it is next, another wretched story. What keeps you going, keeps you…

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