Pyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World

by Simon Dalby

We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to the role of the dominant species in the biosphere. But at the heart of contemporary climate change is the process of combustion. Simon Dalby explores what a life without burning things might look like, and how we might get there.

Fires make the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is heating the planet, melting the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788216512
• ISBN13: 9781788216517
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Agenda Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"