FIRE AND OIL:
Rising to the Challenge of a More Flammable World

John Vaillant

Humans, aided by the fossil fuel industry (the “fire industry”), have altered the chemistry of our planet and its atmosphere in profound, life-changing ways. As a result, we are now, in real time, crossing a threshold into a new climate regime marked by previously unimagined extremes and whipsawing instability. How we conceptualize and respond to this unprecedented challenge is of immediate and paramount importance, not just to our psyches and our souls, but to the future of everyone on Earth.

In this Changemakers talk, John Vaillant will offer ways of seeing, feeling – and meeting – this epochal moment.

John Vaillant is an author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Walrus, among others. His latest book, Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, is a #1 national bestseller. In addition to winning the Baillie Gifford Prize (UK) and the Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, Fire Weather was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award (US), and the Writers’ Trust Non-fiction Prize.