Highlights: John Vaillant on Fire Weather at Changemakers Speakers Series

Fire powers our cars, heats our homes, cooks our food. It is integral to human life on Earth. And it is killing us, says John Vaillant, author of the widely acclaimed Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, about the 2016 fire that consumed Fort McMurray, Alberta.

But there is still reason to hope, he says, because the "renewable energy in [the people in this] room is staggering."

Vaillant spoke to a sold-out audience on April 24 in Victoria as part of Royal Roads University’s Changemakers Speakers Series.