Fire: A Message from the Edge of Climate Catastrophe

‘This book is a revelation; an ambitious, poetic, sweeping account of the Black Summer fires … a natural catastrophe on a ferocious scale beyond the realm of anything previously experienced, or for that matter, imagined … a sterling primer for survival in the age of climate chaos which deserves very wide readership. This is a must-read book for the climate crisis era we are now living in.’
—Peter Garrett AM, noted environmentalist, former Australian Federal Minister, and Midnight Oil frontman

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FIRE is a love letter to a small community who has a message for the world. The time for hollow words and targets and plans is over. Communities need to take back their control and consciously adapt to living in a world with more apocalyptic wildfires, killer heat domes, catastrophic rain bombs, lethal floods and mudslides, deadly droughts, and violent sandstorms.

In 2019 and 2020 fires ripped across Kangaroo Island’s iconic landscape in the catastrophic continent-wide climate-event known as Black Summer. In that fatal season, wildfire destroyed a globally unprecedented percentage of Australia’s forest biome. Across the country 190,000 square kilometres were decimated, the lives of 33 people tragically lost, over 3,000 houses destroyed, and more than 100,000 farm animals and three billion native animals wiped out. Confronted by a hellfire that burned too hot to contain, even the oldest souls within Kangaroo Island’s small community gravely whispered, ‘never before.’

FIRE is essential reading for anyone interested not just in humanity’s future but our present.