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UID:6c0a62da24274927b041c126b4bfdac0
CATEGORIES:AWCH Calendar
CREATED:20240519T065531
SUMMARY:Book Club: Fire Weather
LOCATION: Venita’s Residence\, Raalandsweg 26\, 22559 Hamburg
DESCRIPTION:<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>This month we will be reading</stro
 ng></h4><h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Fire Weather: On the Fr
 ont Lines of a Burning World</em></strong><br /><strong>By John Vaillant</s
 trong></h3><p><img src="images/0.png" alt="0.png" width="566" height="886" 
 style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" />&nbsp;</p>
 <h4><strong><em>Fire Weather</em> summary:&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>In May 201
 6, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest fo
 reign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster 
 melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,0
 00 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.</p><p>Fire has
  been a partner in our evolution for hundreds of millennia,&nbsp;shaping cu
 lture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to c
 ook our food, defend and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive 
 our titanic economy.Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened t
 o elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate change, we 
 are seeing its destructive power unleashed in previously unimaginable ways.
 

</p><p>With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on a&nb
 sp;riveting journey&nbsp;through the intertwined histories of North America
 ’s oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the&nbsp;unprecedented
  devastation wrought by&nbsp;modern forest fires, and into lives forever ch
 anged by these disasters.&nbsp;John Vaillant’s urgent work is a book for—an
 d from—our new century of fire, which has only just begun. (Penguin Random 
 House) <br /><em>Penguin Random House, 2023, 498 pp</em><br /><br /></p><di
 v><b>Guest speaker</b>: Christian Schadendorf. Christian studied and worked
  in forestry in both Germany and Canada for years.&nbsp; He has extensive e
 xperience and knowledge of fire prevention policies and their implementatio
 n.&nbsp;He will share his expertise with us and join our discussion.</div><
 div>&nbsp;</div><h4><strong>Book Club meeting details:</strong></h4><p>We h
 ope you will join us for a discussion of this widely acclaimed book!</p><p>
 <strong>When</strong>: Thursday, June 20, at 19.00<br /><br /><strong>Conta
 ct</strong>: Carol S. at <joomla-hidden-mail  is-link="1" is-email="1" firs
 t="Ym9va2dyb3Vw" last="YXdjaGFtYnVyZy5vcmc=" text="Ym9va2dyb3VwQGF3Y2hhbWJ1
 cmcub3Jn" base="" >This email address is being protected from spambots. You
  need JavaScript enabled to view it.</joomla-hidden-mail>&nbsp;</p>
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>This month we will be reading</stro
 ng></h4><h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Fire Weather: On the Fr
 ont Lines of a Burning World</em></strong><br /><strong>By John Vaillant</s
 trong></h3><p><img src="https://www.awchamburg.org/images/0.png" alt="0.png
 " width="566" height="886" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin
 -right: auto;" />&nbsp;</p><h4><strong><em>Fire Weather</em> summary:&nbsp;
 </strong></h4><p>In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil indust
 ry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The mul
 ti-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods int
 o firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon
 . Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalen
 t 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 flam
 mable world.</p><p>Fire has been a partner in our evolution for hundreds of
  millennia,&nbsp;shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brain
 s. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and heat our homes, and pow
 er the machines that drive our titanic economy.Yet this volatile energy sou
 rce has always threatened to elude our control, and in our new age of inten
 sifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in pr
 eviously unimaginable ways.

</p><p>With masterly prose and a cinematic eye
 , Vaillant takes us on a&nbsp;riveting journey&nbsp;through the intertwined
  histories of North America’s oil industry and the birth of climate science
 , to the&nbsp;unprecedented devastation wrought by&nbsp;modern forest fires
 , and into lives forever changed by these disasters.&nbsp;John Vaillant’s u
 rgent work is a book for—and from—our new century of fire, which has only j
 ust begun. (Penguin Random House) <br /><em>Penguin Random House, 2023, 498
  pp</em><br /><br /></p><div><b>Guest speaker</b>: Christian Schadendorf. C
 hristian studied and worked in forestry in both Germany and Canada for year
 s.&nbsp; He has extensive experience and knowledge of fire prevention polic
 ies and their implementation.&nbsp;He will share his expertise with us and 
 join our discussion.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><h4><strong>Book Club meeting de
 tails:</strong></h4><p>We hope you will join us for a discussion of this wi
 dely acclaimed book!</p><p><strong>When</strong>: Thursday, June 20, at 19.
 00<br /><br /><strong>Contact</strong>: Carol S. at <joomla-hidden-mail  is
 -link="1" is-email="1" first="Ym9va2dyb3Vw" last="YXdjaGFtYnVyZy5vcmc=" tex
 t="Ym9va2dyb3VwQGF3Y2hhbWJ1cmcub3Jn" base="" >This email address is being p
 rotected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.</joomla-hid
 den-mail>&nbsp;</p>
X-EXTRAINFO:Getting there: Either S1 Wedel train to S-Bahn stop Rissen or S1 Blankenese
  train and then Bus 189 direction S Wedel to bus stop Herwigredder. Continu
 e walking in same direction to next right, Raalandsweg. \n

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