PREVIEW: AUSTRALIA: #BUSHES: Excerpt from a conversation with naturalist Danielle Clode in Australia re the growing and ever more threatening fire seasons North and South Hemispheres and how to manage living with the phenomenon of wbushfires or wildfires.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 March 2024
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1826 Australia
https://www.amazon.com/Future-Flames-Danielle-Clode/dp/0648140776
A Future in Flames Paperback –by Danielle Clode (Author)
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.
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| 0:30.8 | This is John Batchelor. Fire season. It did not come in summer for |
| 0:36.2 | Australia. It's coming in fall for Australia. It will come again in North America. |
| 0:42.4 | Fire season. |
| 0:44.0 | What does it mean for people who live in the forest, |
| 0:47.0 | people who live at the face of urban and the forest, |
| 0:51.0 | people who live in town. |
| 0:53.0 | Deno Clode, an expert on wildfires, published this book some decade ago. |
| 0:59.0 | It's more relevant than ever, given the condition of the forests, the undergrowth, the people living in |
| 1:06.8 | the forests in California and in Australia. |
| 1:12.0 | Here's Daniel Cl Claude dealing with living in the Bushland? |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, well, I mean that's a difficult question, isn't it? I mean I love living in |
| 1:20.4 | bushland areas. I love the native vegetation and so I do I do want to live in a |
| 1:25.1 | country area but it does come with risks. Those risks are rare they even even |
| 1:32.4 | with the increased fire risk it's still a rare event. |
| 1:35.0 | So I think we just need to learn how to live safely if we're going to live in those areas. |
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