A Burning World: How Escalating Wildfires Are Contributing to Climate Change and Human Upheaval
Class | Registration opens 1/27/2025 9:00 AM
As the Earth continues to warm from a variety of factors, massive wildfires are accelerating the trend by injecting unprecedented amounts of heat-trapping carbon gasses into the atmosphere. Thousands of people, lucky enough to have escaped these fires, have lost their homes and businesses. More important, the planet has lost tens of millions of acres of life-sustaining forests.
In this course, we’ll explore the science behind wildfires and how to fight them, the human impacts and climate effects of some of the more significant fires, and the growing risk of conflagrations in our own back yards.
Format: This course will follow the traditional LLC collaborative model. Class members will be asked to “own an hour” which they can manage in a wide variety of ways.
Resources/Expenses: The course will be built around the 2023 book Fire Weather by John Vaillant, available in bookstores and online for $15.95.
David Evans
Dave Evans taught science in Providence Public High Schools for thirty years. He is co-coordinating his first LLC course.
Nickerson Miles
Nick Miles spent his career in communication and marketing in multiple industries before retiring. He joined LLC ten years ago and has coordinated a number of courses.