Author(s): Margi Prideaux

Environment / Climate

"From Kangaroo Island resident and writer Margi Prideaux, who holds a Ph.D in wildlife policy and law, comes Fire, 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 wildfi res, killer heat domes, catastrophic rain bombs, lethal floods and mudslides, deadly droughts, and violent sandstorms. Fire captures the emotional journey of the author and her family living through the catastrophic 2019 and 2020 fires that ripped across Kangaroo Island’s iconic landscape. Margi lost her home and farm during that tragic season, and Fire chronicles a community’s journey through trauma and climate grief; from disaster into stark awareness of climate chaos; from climate apathy to front-line witnesses of a global climate crisis. A journey billions more people will suffer as climate disasters escalate. Fire is essential reading for anyone interested not just in humanity’s future but our present."