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How to Save Lives, Property, and Your Tax Dollars
Hill and Wang
July 2006
On Sale: June 27, 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 0809065819
EAN: 9780809065813
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Three years after Roger Kennedy retired as director of the
National Park Service, from his Santa Fe home he watched as
the Cerro Grande Fire moved across the Pajarito Plateau and
into Los Alamos. Two hundred and thirty-five homes were
destroyed, more than 45,000 acres of forest were burned, and
the nation’s nuclear laboratories were threatened; even
before the embers had died a blame game erupted. Kennedy’s
career as a public servant, which encompasses appointments
under five presidential administrations, convinced him that
the tragedy would produce scapegoats and misinformation, and
leave American lives at risk. That was unacceptable, even
unforgivable.
Wildfire and Americans is a passionate, deeply informed
appeal that we acknowledge wildfire not as a fire problem
but as a people problem. Americans are in the wrong places,
damningly because they were encouraged to settle there.
Politicians, scientists, and CEOs acting out of patriotism,
hubris, and greed have
placed their fellow countrymen in harm’s way. And now, with
global warming, we inhabit a landscape that has become much
more dangerous. Grounded in the conviction that we owe a
duty to our environment and our fellow man, Wildfire and
Americans is more than a depiction of policies gone terribly
awry. It is a plea to acknowledge the mercy we owe nature
and mankind.
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