Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We’ve experienced yet another summer of record wildfires in the western U.S., endangering lives, displacing communities, and sending unhealthy smoke across the nation. The science is clear: human-caused climate change is making lands more conducive to burning, and we are increasingly living in flammable landscapes. Forest experts say there are tools to help reduce the risk of catastrophic fires, keep forests alive as valuable carbon sinks and make communities more resilient to megafires. But we may also have to become accustomed to more fire – and smoke – in our lives. How can we better live with fire, including using it as a tool, rather than always fighting it? For transcripts and other information, visit: https://www.climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts Guests: Stephen Pyne, author, The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next Susan Husari, member of the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection Chad T. Hanson, author, Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate Jaime Lowe, author, Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	This is Climate 1. I'm Greg Dalton. We're living in a new age of huge wildfires, driven by climate.
0:37.4	We have been altering the earth, including the atmosphere, ever since the last glaciation ended.
0:43.6	But the whole process went on afterburners when we begin burning fossil fuels.
0:49.4	Our tools haven't changed much, but the fires have.
0:52.5	Through a good part of my career, the time when fire
0:56.8	burned was mostly during the daytime, and then there would be opportunities to do fire suppression
1:03.3	at night. Now some big fires burn 24 hours a day. So how do we make our landscapes and communities
1:10.0	resilient to fire?
1:11.8	We need to make sure that when the fires reach communities, which they will, that communities
1:16.4	are protected, that homes don't burn, that people and their animals can evacuate safely,
1:21.0	and they have the assistance to do that.
1:26.1	Before we get into today's show about how to better live with wildfire, we're continuing our
1:31.6	weekly look at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month. The Paris Climate Agreement requires
1:37.7	all partner countries to declare nationally determined contributions or NDCs. Basically, every
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