Firestorm: Critical Approaches to Forest Death and Life - Sophia

Broadly speaking, article talks about climate change and its effects on the earth. More specifically, it talks about all the wild forest fires that are happening. There are some that are now annual in places such as Australia, Brazil, and many more. 

The article also defines what a firestorm is. A firestorm is when a wild fire’s intensity grows so much so, that it can generate winds by itself. These winds help to fuel the fire further. The article makes a really interesting connection. It says that the combination of things like ecology, technology, and power can create a “sociological firestorm”. 

I interpret this “sociological firestorm” as perhaps a conflict that is started within a society. As the conflict escalates, there are butterfly effects of this conflict that escalate it even further, causing it to ripple more, and so on. This is the way that the article ties into cultural anthropology. It talks about society, the way it functions, and how it can be sometimes compared to a firestorm. 

The article also mentions ways in which we, ourselves, are contributing to the climate change that causes these major fires and change in environment. We are polluting, chopping down forests, and building large structures that only decrease the health of the earth. I think this goes to show how much humans and society as a whole have grown and how powerful we have become. So powerful, in fact, that we’re putting our entire planet - and animals on it - in grave danger. We are a self-endangering species and our own creations are leading to our impending demise.