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PREVIEW: From a conversation with Australian Danielle Clode on the show tonight about growing up with and living in the reach of unpredictable bushfires all across the continent -- a subject that requires what-if planning each season urban or ex-urban, bu

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: From a conversation with Australian Danielle Clode on the show tonight about growing up with and living in the reach of unpredictable bushfires all across the continent -- a subject that requires what-if planning each season urban or ex-urban, but especially with the changing expectations of the climate in the Southern Hemisphere.

Quoting H.G. Wells: "A bush fire is not an orderly invader, but a guerrilla..."


A Future in Flames by Danielle Clode (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Future-Flames-Danielle-Clode/dp/0648140776?ref_=ast_author_dp

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I have learned over years of reporting with my colleagues in Australia

0:35.0

that bushfires are part of life in Australia. You go up with them, you get used to them.

0:40.0

At some point, across the vastness of the continent there is a bushfire set by lightning

0:46.8

sometimes set by arson, most set by lightning.

0:50.9

Daniel Clot, the biologist living in South Australia, describes bushfires, living with them, always thinking about them.

0:58.0

No matter where you are a big city or out in the countryside or in suburbia. What to do, where to go. Should we

1:07.3

leave right away? Should we stay? There are things to learn about bushfires that are

1:12.3

useful given I've also covered

1:15.2

the wildfires of California, bushfires in Australia, wildfires in California and

1:20.2

the West, same thing, spreading willy-nilly, unpredictably, and how to deal with them when

1:27.4

the season comes, or with climate change, no way to anticipate El Nino-L-Nino.

1:33.0

Here's Danielle describing how she thought about Bushfires her whole life,

1:38.0

as a child, as an adult in the city, and as an adult and a train biologist and observer in rural

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