John Vaillant/Fire Weather: on the front lines of a burning world

Vintage books/Random House 2024
Pulitzer finalist, National Book finalist

Alberta oil town burns down.

Side trips to other fire disasters.

Add in all the science of climate change and fire physics. History of geology and science discoveries.

Parallels to first kill all the beavers (Hudson Bay Corp) then kill the land, air, and water (all other multinationals).

The emotional dissonance as the unthinkable happens.

And irony. Oil workers escaping Armageddon in oil driven cars. Oil workers homes full of oil products exploding in five minutes.

Valiant strives to be nonjudgmental but underneath I think he’s screaming: you fools!