Mountains of Fire review: What volcanoes can teach us about ourselves

Mountains of Fireplace
Clive Oppenheimer (Hodder & Stoughton)

IF YOU are one of many billion or so individuals who reside inside 80 kilometres of an lively volcano, the probabilities are that you’ve got puzzled what an eruption may imply for you. Volcanic eruptions might be disastrous for communities within the rapid neighborhood. Very massive ones can be disastrous for the planet, as ash and gasoline from Earth’s innards encircle the stratosphere, cooling or, as within the case of the 2022 eruption of …