Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Out-of-control fires burning around the world are rising in frequency and intensity each year. How and why is this happening? The scientific answer is that this is a result of escalating greenhouse-gas emissions. But this process didn’t just happen on its own – it is not some inevitable scenario.
In our latest episode of the UCI School of Social Sciences Experts On series, Eve Darian-Smith, professor and chair of global and international studies at UC Irvine breaks down the role political and economic decisions play in our world’s mounting climate crisis.
Her new book, Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis, explores the causes and consequences of catastrophic wildfires that have been burning in both the northern and southern hemispheres, and which disproportionately impact poor and marginalized communities.
Out-of-control fires burning around the world are rising in frequency and intensity each year. How and why is this happening? The scientific answer is that this is a result of escalating greenhouse-gas emissions. But this process didn’t just happen on its own – it is not some inevitable scenario.
In our latest episode of the UCI School of Social Sciences Experts On series, Eve Darian-Smith, professor and chair of global and international studies at UC Irvine breaks down the role political and economic decisions play in our world’s mounting climate crisis.
Her new book, Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis, explores the causes and consequences of catastrophic wildfires that have been burning in both the northern and southern hemispheres, and which disproportionately impact poor and marginalized communities.
