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The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from th eir homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic confl agration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns t hat this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must pre pare for in a hotter, more flammable world.\nFire has been a partner in our evolution for hundreds of millennia, shaping culture, civilization, and, v ery likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and he at our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic economy.Yet thi s 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.

\nWith masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on a riveting journey through the inter twined histories of North America’s oil industry and the birth of climate s cience, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest fires, an d into lives forever changed by these disasters. John Vaillant’s urgent wor k is a book for—and from—our new century of fire, which has only just begun . (Penguin Random House) \nPenguin Random House, 2023, 498 pp\n\n\nGuest sp eaker: Christian Schadendorf. Christian studied and worked in forestry in b oth Germany and Canada for years.  He has extensive experience and knowledg e of fire prevention policies and their implementation. He will share his e xpertise with us and join our discussion. Book Club meeting details:We hope you will join us for a discussion of this widely acclaimed book!\nWhen: Th ursday, June 20, at 19.00\n\nContact: Carol S. at This email address is bei ng protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This month we will be reading

Fire Weather: On the Fr ont Lines of a Burning World
By John Vaillant

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Fire Weather summary: 

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.

Fire has been a partner in our evolution for hundreds of millennia, 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.



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 u rgent work is a book for—and from—our new century of fire, which has only j ust begun. (Penguin Random House)
Penguin Random House, 2023, 498 pp

Guest speaker: Christian Schadendorf. C hristian studied and worked in forestry in both Germany and Canada for year s.  He has extensive experience and knowledge of fire prevention polic ies and their implementation. He will share his expertise with us and join our discussion.
 

Book Club meeting de tails:

We hope you will join us for a discussion of this wi dely acclaimed book!

When: Thursday, June 20, at 19. 00

Contact: Carol S. at This email address is being p rotected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

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 DTSTAMP:20260423T042628 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240620T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR