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We're with Captain Cook off the coast of what will become Australia.

The Captain records in his log, he sees a smoking cape.

This moment in history is a way of talking about a phenomenon that is worldwide and that challenges civilization in the northern hemisphere, Greece, Spain, Italy,

in the southern hemisphere, especially Australia, but Argentina and Chile, wildfires, they're called in

California, bushfires are called in Australia. A new book that is an old book, a book that is necessary now and was necessary when it was

written a dozen years ago. A future in flames. Daniel Clode is the author. Daniel is very generous to come back after I interviewed her about her wonderful

new book, Kowalas, and in the course of that conversation, we talked about the horror of

a wildfire over Kowal koas cling to their source of energy,

which is a eucalyptus tree.

And eucalyptus in a fire are very dangerous.

Daniel, I congratulate you for having anticipated the fate of the planet

a dozen years ago because we're now in a situation where wildfires we're told are going to become

routine, not rare, and perhaps every year there'll be damage to the environment, to the

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