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Fire : A Message from the Edge of Climate Catastrophe / Margi Prideaux ; foreword by Peter Garrett.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Prideaux, Margi.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central
Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Climatic changes--Government policy--Australia.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes--Australia.
Wildfires--Australia.
Wildfires.
Wildfires--Australia--Prevention and control.
Floods--Australia.
Floods.
Flood control--Australia.
Flood control.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 p.)
Place of Publication:
Parndana, SA : Stormbird Press, [2022]
Contents:
Intro
FIRE
Foreword
Pandemonium
1
Stringybark
2
Roar
3
Semantics
4
Mitigation, Interrupted
Mitigation Defined
5
Adaptation
Adaptation Defined
6
Fire Weather
Drivers for Fire Weather
Forest Fire Danger Index
Rapid Rise of Mega-fires
7
Helter-skelter
8
Fire-breathing Dragons
Capricious Foe
Clouds + Fire = Hellstorms
Cold Truths
9
Warriors
Bedlam
10
Undone
11
Splinters of Glass
12
Wither Wilderness
13
Hopium
Drunk on Hopium
Shifting my Baseline
14
Cascading Failure
Climate Culpa
Slighting Sendai
The Bushfire Commission Speaks
15
Wicked is Not Good
Dangerous Divisions
Suffering is, Actually, Optional
Untangling the Gordian Knot
Revolution
16
First a Vision
Dependant, and Weakened
Waking to Reality
Who Will Adapt?
17
Embrace Connection
What is New is Old
Wisdom's Lead
18
Radically Local
Afterword
Vale Stringybark
Acknowledgements
Annexes
Power
Only Together
Statement to the Senate Inquiry into Australia's Faunal Extinction Crisis
Division is Dangerous
We Were Warned
Unspoken Truths
Adapting to Survive
Becoming Radically Local
Recommendations
References
Inquiry Submission References
Index
About the Author
Notes:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 25, 2023).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
Other Format:
Print version: Prideaux FIRE
ISBN:
9781925856576
1925856577
Publisher Number:
99994586756
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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