Club Meeting 32: Fire Weather
Fire Weather by John Vaillant is a gripping account of the devastating 2016 wildfire that swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, while also exploring humanity’s long relationship with fire, the oil industry, and climate change. Vaillant combines firsthand stories of firefighters and residents with science and history to show how a combination of extreme weather, a warming climate, and a landscape saturated with petroleum products created a new kind of wildfire—one that challenged everything people thought they knew about fire
Guest : Neil Slighton
Neil Slighton grew up in Hong Kong and San Francisco and went to school at Princeton where he and Phil were roommates freshman and sophomore year. Neil majored in Operations Research and minored in Environmental Studies. He went on to work with Boston Consulting Group in Denver where he now works as a manager in a newly formed environmental consulting team where he works with Fortune 500 and mid-cap companies in order to help them set and meet environmental goals.
