Some say the world will end in fire

The world is being churned. Ocean acidity is dissolving the shells of crustaceans, light is bringing darkness, and fires are creating cold yellow skies and changing the weather around them. What does it mean for climate change to intensify wild fires? And, in turn, what does it mean that intensifying fires cause their own weather patterns? It suggests that we are experiencing an assault upon the very elements of life. Until a bit over half a century ago, the disciplines of meteorology and climatology were based on the presumption that the climate was a stable phenomenon. Now, science tells us that the world could break the feared threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius warming over the next five years. In short, we are living through a time when prior worlds of meaning and practice are being overlaid and reconstituted by a new world of elemental perversions. This new world is created by us, including through insatiable commodity fetishism, overproduction of things, technoscientific intervention in nature, and (perversely) through a constantly renewed hope for material progress and unsustainably comfortable lives.