Some call our modern epoch the Anthropocene. Others have dubbed it the Capitalocene, or the Plasticene. Now another name has been proposed... the Petrocene. __________________________ In his award-winning book Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant explores the history of humanity's intimate and complicated relationship with fire — how fire made our evolution and civilization possible, but also how our species has unwittingly turned fire into something more destructive and fearsome. Vaillant contends we live in what he calls the Petrocene: an age defined by the impact our dependence on fossil fuels is having on the planet — a new world of fire super-charged by the deepening climate crisis. "There's no such thing as a new normal,” says Vaillant. “We are going into what I would call climate incognita, the unknown climate. And it's going to keep changing. And we're going to have to keep adapting and it's going to keep surprising us." __________________________ FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/fire-beast-john-vaillant-1.7217546 #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency