In an evocative polemic the author traces the ways in which man-made fire, ‘incendiarism against creation’, has marked the planet in the last century. Starting with the burning Amazon forests but taking in Grenfell, he looks back to personal experiences of war-time bombing, knowledge of Hiroshima, Vietnam and Star Wars. As the Cold War ended, human detonation became the new risk. Prosperity, which should have provided a shield, has, instead, engulfed the whole world in new combustions.

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纵火者的时代

在一场令人回味的论战中，作者追溯了上个世纪人造火、“反对创造的放火主义”如何标记地球的方式。从燃烧的亚马逊森林开始，到格伦费尔，他回顾了战时轰炸的个人经历、广岛、越南和星球大战的知识。随着冷战的结束，人类爆炸成为新的风险。繁荣本应提供保护，结果却将整个世界卷入了新的燃烧之中。