1/4: A Future in Flames Paperback – March 19, 2018 by Danielle Clode (Author)
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1/4: A Future in Flames Paperback – March 19, 2018 by Danielle Clode (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Future-Flames-Danielle-Clode/dp/0648140776?ref_=ast_author_dp
ire has shaped the Australian landscape and the lives of Australians for thousands of years—and will continue to do so as the climate changes. For all our advances in prevention and prediction, planning and communication, bushfires keep claiming our lives and our homes. How can we avoid another Ash Wednesday or Black Saturday?Danielle Clode has lived in the bushfire danger zone and studied the past and recent history of fire management and fire-fighting. Here she tells the complex story of Australia’s relationship with fire, from indigenous practices to country fire brigades and royal commissions—as well as her own story of living with the threat of fire. A Future in Flames is a vivid history, a sombre reflection and an invaluable guide for living and dealing with fire.
1916 ANZAC Day Sydney
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| 0:00.0 | Looking for keys, looking for keys, looking for keys. |
| 0:05.0 | Looking for keys. |
| 0:09.9 | Everyone's tired of looking for keys. |
| 0:14.0 | So the Honda HRV hybrid can be unlocked |
| 0:18.0 | and turned on |
| 0:21.0 | with your phone. |
| 0:25.0 | while we're listening take us next, |
| 0:27.0 | Honda the power of dreams. This is CBS I on the world. |
| 0:35.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:40.0 | It is 1770. |
| 0:43.0 | We're with Captain off the coast of what will become Australia. |
| 0:48.0 | The Captain records in his log he sees a smoking cape. This moment in history is a way of talking about a |
| 0:58.6 | phenomena that is worldwide and that challenges civilization in the northern hemisphere, Greece, Spain, Italy, |
| 1:09.0 | in the southern hemisphere, especially Australia, but Argentina and Chile, wildfires, they're called in California, |
| 1:17.0 | bush fires are called in Australia. |
| 1:19.7 | A new book that is an old book, a book that is necessary now and was necessary when it was |
| 1:26.0 | written a dozen years ago. A future in flames. Daniel Clode is the author. |
| 1:32.1 | Daniel is very generous to come back after I interviewed her |
| 1:35.9 | about her wonderful new book, Kowalas and in the course of that conversation we |
| 1:40.7 | talked about the horror of a wildfire to a koala because koalas cling to their |
| 1:46.8 | source of energy which is a eucalyptus tree and eucalyptus in a fire are very dangerous. |
| 1:54.0 | Daniel, I congratulate you for having anticipated the fate of the planet a dozen years ago |
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