Ecology of Fear

And finally, deforestation creates more exposed areas for fire, especially around the edges of a forest biome like the Amazon.

There's also what Mike Davis talks about in the famous chapter from Ecology of Fear called The Case for Letting Malibu Burn, which is basically real estate building into fire-prone wildlands and creating new risks for human beings and intensifying counterproductive fire suppression.

On the apocalyptic framing issue that I mentioned, so in your article in the New Statesman, you write about why you're very skeptical of that way of thinking about the climate, even when it comes to something as dramatic as wildfires, where apocalyptic doomsday language is perhaps particularly seductive, seems quite appropriate.

as opposed to other aspects of climate, say warming sea temperatures, for instance, which doesn't seem to lend itself to such strong language.