Actions
- 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 鈥渆veryday lens鈥� 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听听
- Activism and protests听听
- Depending on where you live, you may need to be more prepared for fire.听
- Communities preparing wildfire mitigation and planning strategies听听
- Standardization, specifically to communities, on how to deal with fires in policy听
- Be wary of misinformation and romanticization of fires听
- Fire fighting and private property, need to be more willing to sacrifice buildings to save firefighter鈥檚 lives
- Support the Climate Disaster Project
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- Go bags, and raising awareness on how to be prepared for fires
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Resource List
Articles:听
McKibben, B. What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art.听Grist听听(2005).
Books:
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Rob Nixon
Rehearsals for Living,听Robin Maynard & Leanne Simpson
Journal Articles on Wildfires:
Davis, Mike. 鈥淭he Case for Letting Malibu Burn.鈥澨�Environmental History Review.听.听
Hoffman, Kira M., et al. 鈥淭he Right to Burn: Barriers and Opportunities for Indigenous-Led Fire Stewardship in Canada.鈥澨�FACETS, vol. 7, Jan. 2022, pp. 464鈥�81.听facetsjournal.com (Atypon),听.听
Rose, D.听Decolonising the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies. 2001,听can be found in: Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value听by Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke.听
Other Books on Wildfires:
Struzik, Edward.听Dark Days at Noon | McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press.听.