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Fire : A Message from the Edge of Climate Catastrophe / Margi Prideaux ; foreword by Peter Garrett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prideaux, Margi.
- 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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