Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Red Széll for the latest episode of AMI-audio’s My Life in Books. Each fortnight, Red invites you to join him in conversation with a renowned author about their work and the books that inspired them to write.

It was the most costly and destructive disaster in Canada’s history. The 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire reduced Alberta’s fourth-largest city to ash, displaced 90,000 people and took 15 months to put out.

Miraculously the death toll was extremely low, but as John Vaillant argues in his internationally best-selling book, Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, the inferno that consumed Fort McMurray is a harbinger of our near future.

Combining a flair for storytelling that reads like the screenplay of a disaster movie, and a searing examination of mankind’s exploitation of fire and the fossil fuels that feed it, John explains how we have supercharged our atmosphere and now live in a world that is more explosively flammable than at any time in human history.

Join Red and John as they discuss the history of fire, the role of the fossil fuel industry in global warming, and some of the extraordinary stories of those caught up in the Fort McMurray fire. About AMI

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