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Fighting Fires and Family Secrets

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You Can't Control Fire

i was struck by this idea, the control we tried to exert over the natural world. Lots of scholars call the part of history we're in now the anthropocene. That anthro it means people. It's a time when humans have impacted every part of the ecosystem wherever you look. You can't escape the legacy of us and our razy ambition to control and shape the world.

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