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02982aam a2200421 i 4500 001 CD09ED701D8011EFA6667B3325ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240529010049 008 230915t20242024enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1788216512 020 $a 9781788216517 020 $a 1788216504 020 $a 9781788216500 035 $a (OCoLC)1400077976 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d RCE $d IBI $d SILO 050 4 $a TD171.75 $b .D35 2024 082 04 $a 363.738746 $2 23 100 1 $a Dalby, Simon, $e author. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000108944688 245 10 $a Pyromania : $b fire and geopolitics in a climate-disrupted world / $c Simon Dalby. 264 1 $a Newcastle upon Tyne : $b Agenda Publishing, $c 2024 300 $a x, 140 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-135) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: a world on fire -- The problem of firepower -- Fire history and the making of the modern world -- Rethinking firepower and geopolitics -- Shaping the future: a world after firepower -- Conclusion: join the fire department! 520 $a "We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to the role of the dominant species in the biosphere. But at the heart of contemporary climate change is the process of combustion. Simon Dalby explores what a life without burning things might look like, and how we might get there. Fires make the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is heating the planet, melting the ice sheets, changing weather patterns and making wildfires worse. Our civilization is burning things, especially fossil fuels, at prodigious rates. So much so that we are now heading towards a future "Hothouse Earth" with a climate that is very different from what humans have known so far. By focusing on fire and our partial control over one key physical force in the earth system, that of combustion, Simon Dalby is able to ask important and interesting questions about us as humans, including different ways of thinking about how we live, and how we might do so differently in the future. Simply put, there is now far too much "firepower" loose in the world and we need to think much harder about how to live together in ways that don't require burning stuff to do so." -- Amazon. 650 0 $a Climate change mitigation. 650 0 $a Fire ecology. 650 0 $a Fossil fuels $x Environmental aspects. 650 6 $a Climat $x AtteÌnuation. $x AtteÌnuation. 650 6 $a EÌcologie des feux. 650 6 $a Combustibles fossiles $x Aspect de l'environnement. 650 7 $a Climate change mitigation $2 fast 650 7 $a Fire ecology $2 fast 650 7 $a Fossil fuels $x Environmental aspects $2 fast 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781788216531 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240529010213.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CD09ED701D8011EFA6667B3325ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search