How to live with fire | Oral McGuire

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Uncontrolled fire threatens nature — but the right kind of fire can maintain the health and balance of the land, says fire management expert Oral McGuire. As a leader in the Nyungar community of southwestern Australia and a former firefighter, he connects traditional wisdom with modern techniques to wield fire in a way that promotes biodiversity and heals the spirit of the land at the same time.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:09.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:13.0	I'm coming to you from Southern California
0:15.1	where wildfire season can not only be destructive,
0:18.6	but deadly.
0:19.8	Even if the fires don't immediately threaten
0:21.7	the places we live, work, or play, the smoke affects
0:25.2	the air we breathe.
0:27.2	It's true also for other parts of the world, like Australia.
0:30.4	Maybe we can learn a thing or two from our friends down under.
0:33.0	Fire practitioner Orel McGuire asks us to remember how fire is our friend, too,
0:38.8	at the countdown summit in 2023.
0:41.5	He lays out the key principles to apply burning in a way that's not destructive,
0:45.8	but restorative for nature after the break.
0:51.6	I'd like to acknowledge and pay my respect to the Anishinabe Nation and its
0:57.8	Council of Three Fires, the Ottawa, the Chippewa and the Potawatami peoples.
1:05.0	I am grateful to be here on your sacred ancestral lands.
1:10.0	Do you see fire as friend or foe?
1:15.0	In Australia we have a growing issue around fire that challenges us every fire season.
1:23.3	And because of our changing climate,
1:25.3	there are now other places in the world
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