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Let's Get Real: Fire Weather by John Vaillant

2024-11-18 18:00:00 2024-11-18 19:00:00 America/New_York Let's Get Real: Fire Weather by John Vaillant "Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World" by John Vaillant: In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. Macomb Intermediate School District (MISD) - Room 202

Monday, November 18
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-11-18 18:00:00 2024-11-18 19:00:00 America/New_York Let's Get Real: Fire Weather by John Vaillant "Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World" by John Vaillant: In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. Macomb Intermediate School District (MISD) - Room 202

"Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World" by John Vaillant: In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire.

The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration, John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world. With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, he takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America’s oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest fires, and into lives forever changed by these disasters.

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