
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 “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..