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 https://grist.org/article/mckibben-imagine/ (2005).
Books:
Journal Articles on Wildfires:
Davis, Mike. “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn.” Environmental History Review. https://doi.org/10.2307/3984830.
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), https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2021-0062.
Rose, D. Decolonising the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies. 2001, can be found in: Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value by Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bd95/d115f425d5328b88b7820973e68c34f2dadd.pdf
Other Books on Wildfires:
Struzik, Edward. Dark Days at Noon | McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/dark-days-at-noon-products-9780228012092.php.