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The planet is burning

24 mins | Dec 3, 2019
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Wild, feral and fossil-fuelled, in recent years more than ever, fire lights up the globe. Is it time to declare that humans have created a Pyrocene? Writing in Aeon magazine, Stephen J Pyne explains the fire age and what it means for our civilisation.

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