Amid warnings of a dangerous bushfire season, Alan Atkinson looks back on living through the Ash Wednesday disaster 40 years ago and asks: have we become complacent, and could it happen again?
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“We are on a collision course with a reality we don’t really comprehend,” writes Margi Prideaux in Fire: A Message from the Edge of Climate Catastrophe. This book grapples with the most difficult or – to use her word – “wicked” of problems. The threat, says Prideaux, is climate chaos.