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McKenzie Funk: Travels in the Apocalypse, 7 February 2019

Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future 
by Edward Struzik.
Island Press, 248 pp., £22.99, October 2017, 978 1 61091 818 3
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Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change 
by Ashley Dawson.
Verso, 384 pp., £20, October 2017, 978 1 78478 036 4
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Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault 
by Cary Fowler.
Prospecta, 160 pp., £29.99, September 2016, 978 1 63226 057 4
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Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration and Homeland Security 
by Todd Miller.
City Lights, 272 pp., £7.99, September 2017, 978 0 87286 715 4
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... risk by trying to diminish it in the short term doesn’t apply only to fires. In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson, a New York-based activist and scholar of postcolonialism, argues persuasively that cities are becoming ground zero for climate change. They are home to most of the world’s people and the source of most of its emissions. We have built our ...

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