Burning Planet
Oxford University Press, $40.95 hb, 256 pp, 9780198734840
Environmental Studies
Burning Planet by Andrew C. Scott
by Billy Griffiths •
A few years ago I walked through a burning landscape with a young archaeobotanist, Xavier. We were in Arnhem Land, and the local Indigenous landowners had lit a low-intensity fire – a cool burn – to encourage new growth and reduce the fuel load around nearby settlements. The newly blackened landscape looked clean, even beautiful.
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