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  • Online Map & Living Library
    • We spoke about creating a map/living library of personal narratives from climate change impacted regions.
    • “To have people show their experience through an “everyday lens” using whichever form they feel allows them to express themselves best. For example, someone might take a picture of packed bags. Another person might write about dusting ash off their car. Perhaps someone might even paint the smoke.” (Ayla Sully)
    • We are open to collaboration on this and work together to build something!
  • Keep fighting on climate mitigation
  • Activism and protests
  • Depending on where you live, you may need to be more prepared for fire.
  • Communities preparing wildfire mitigation and planning strategies
  • Standardization, specifically to communities, on how to deal with fires in policy
  • Be wary of misinformation and romanticization of fires
  • Fire fighting and private property, need to be more willing to sacrifice buildings to save firefighter’s lives
  • Support the Climate Disaster Project
  • Go bags, and raising awareness on how to be prepared for fires

Resource List

Articles:

McKibben, B. What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art.Grist(2005).

Books:

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Rob Nixon
Rehearsals for Living,Robin Maynard & Leanne Simpson

Journal Articles on Wildfires:

Davis, Mike. “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn.”Environmental History Review..

Hoffman, Kira M., et al. “The Right to Burn: Barriers and Opportunities for Indigenous-Led Fire Stewardship in Canada.”FACETS, vol. 7, Jan. 2022, pp. 464–81.facetsjournal.com (Atypon),.

Rose, D.Decolonising the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies. 2001,can be found in: Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Valueby Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke.

Other Books on Wildfires:

Struzik, Edward.Dark Days at Noon | McGill-Queen’s University Press..