Simon Dalby is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He has written extensively on climate change, environmental security and geopolitics.

• Introduction: A World on Fire1. The Problem of Firepower2. Fire History and the Making of the Modern World3. Rethinking Firepower and Geopolitics4. Shaping the Future: A World After FirepowerConclusion: Join the Fire Department!

Pyromania explores how we have reached the limit of the planet's natural resources and how we could stop burning up the atmosphere and using it as a free dumping ground for pollutants from fossil fuel. Fire, once an important element to human life, is now possibly our most relevant threat.

Simon Dalby is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He has written extensively on climate change, environmental security and geopolitics.

• Introduction: A World on Fire1. The Problem of Firepower2. Fire History and the Making of the Modern World3. Rethinking Firepower and Geopolitics4. Shaping the Future: A World After FirepowerConclusion: Join the Fire Department!

Pyromania explores how we have reached the limit of the planet's natural resources and how we could stop burning up the atmosphere and using it as a free dumping ground for pollutants from fossil fuel. Fire, once an important element to human life, is now possibly our most relevant threat.

Simon Dalby is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He has written extensively on climate change, environmental security and geopolitics.

• Introduction: A World on Fire1. The Problem of Firepower2. Fire History and the Making of the Modern World3. Rethinking Firepower and Geopolitics4. Shaping the Future: A World After FirepowerConclusion: Join the Fire Department!

Pyromania explores how we have reached the limit of the planet's natural resources and how we could stop burning up the atmosphere and using it as a free dumping ground for pollutants from fossil fuel. Fire, once an important element to human life, is now possibly our most relevant threat.