Stephen J Pyne

Emeritus Professor, Arizona State University

Stephen J Pyne is a writer, an urban farmer, and an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. His latest books include The Great Ages of Discovery: How Western Civilization Learned About a Wider World (2021) and The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (2021). He lives in Queen Creek, Arizona, US.

Written by Stephen J Pyne

Photo of a burnt forest landscape under cloudy skies with a person and child in colourful clothing in the foreground.

Our children will need to find the beauty in our burnt planet

How will our children find beauty in a world rapidly breaking into what observers call a spectacle of unremitting loss?

by Stephen J Pyne