Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr
This Is Hell!
This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This wish that Pop was here right now to see this good crop that we finally got. |
| 0:04.0 | Good God Almighty, man, where you look at them beads, |
| 0:08.0 | man, look at that coat, |
| 0:11.0 | and then watermel, |
| 0:13.0 | watermel, must be in these three feet-noh. |
| 0:15.0 | Why is that song so conducive to second place? in this place. I'm going to be. I think. |
| 0:24.0 | I think it's |
| 0:25.0 | I think it's bad. This is hell. |
| 0:40.0 | hell. The planets on fire, so yes, this is hell. |
| 0:47.0 | Okay, the planet isn't literally on fire. |
| 0:50.0 | In fact, there are fewer and fewer fires on our planet, and that just might be the problem. |
| 0:56.3 | Our relationship with fire, which stretches back, well, who knows how long, has been kind of |
| 1:01.0 | screwed up lately. |
| 1:02.2 | For the vast majority of human history, we've actually... has been kind of |
| 1:05.0 | kind of fine with fire. |
| 1:07.0 | We used fire to actually control nature in a way. |
| 1:10.0 | We would burn living vegetation in order to make way for growing food and to make certain that we would not have runaway conflagrations that could be a threat to our safety. |
| 1:20.0 | But of late, say the last few centuries, the past few centuries, that is, we have done everything |
| 1:27.0 | we can to make certain that there are fewer and fewer fires because fire is a very frightening thing |
| 1:31.6 | to us. But that's a weird part. Fire didn't use to be so scary, |
| 1:35.8 | to humans. Farry was just another part of the natural world, like water. However, while we |
| 1:41.5 | send probes to other planets in search of those that may sustain life and water, |
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