
AnthropologyApril 12, 2024
Fire Forged Humanity. Now It Threatens Everything
Ancient prophecies of worlds destroyed by fire are becoming realities. How will we respond?
Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University, where he worked for more than 30 years. He is author of The Pyrocene (University of California Press, 2021) and Fire: A Brief History (second edition, University of Washington Press, 2019). He has received a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Antarctic Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Fire Forged Humanity. Now It Threatens Everything
Ancient prophecies of worlds destroyed by fire are becoming realities. How will we respond?