California’s explosive cataclysms, says author of National Book Award-nominated Fire Weather, are showing the future to the world.
For a book revolving around a city-consuming wildfire in Canada, John Vaillant’s Fire Weather — named this month a U.S. National Book Award non-fiction finalist — features a great deal of California content. This state’s fiery cataclysms, Vaillant says, opened a window into everybody’s future.came in the past seven years, an abrupt escalation that “anticipated what a lot of us are experiencing now,” Vaillant said in an interview.
The way the tornado moved “was so astonishing, and obliterating,” Vaillant says. “It really was comparable to Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It was destruction on a scale that I’ve never seen anywhere.”, the city supporting Canada’s gigantic tar-sands oilfields. Homes burned to foundations in three minutes. Neighborhoods vanished in an hour. Fire Weather draws a blazing connection between the fuels that propel modern civilization and threaten to destroy it.
“Oil has been dominant for our entire lives,” Vaillant says. “It really was an experiment, and we now know what the results are: fabulous wealth for some, and climate disaster for everybody.”The Bay Area News Group caught up with Vaillant recently by phone. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.In Fire Weather, you quote a Cal Fire deputy chief saying that in California, we used to have a four-month fire season and now it’s effectively all year.
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