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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.\nUnless you\u2019ve actually been in an area where you can look out your window and see the view with your own eyes, by now you\u2019ve caught images of an orange sky coming from West Coast. For the past week, hundreds of miles of California, Oregon, Washington, and neighboring states have been covered in smokey air as forest fires rage, driving thousands of people from their homes. More than a dozen\xa0people have died in these historically catastrophic fires.\nAs climate change has increasingly worsened fire season, it\u2019s\xa0changed how Paige Parry,\xa0associate professor of Biology at George Fox University, makes sense of these disasters.\xa0\n\u201cWe know that humans are what\u2019s contributing to the fires,\u201d said Parry. \u201cSo in my head, that makes my response and the questions that I ask very different than maybe a disaster that's truly natural and not influenced at all by human action.\u201d\nParry, a quantitative forest ecologist, has spent most of her life and research in the West.\xa0\n\u201cWithin this context of feeling like we have so little control over the situations that are unfolding here on the West Coast and feeling like we're just victims of these fires ravaging, there's a part of me that also recognizes that our collective actions and choices have in some ways likely contributed to the situation that we've found ourselves in, which I think leaves us to wrestle with it in a very different way,\u201d she said.\xa0\nParry joined global media manager Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen to discuss why these fires have grown increasingly worse, what types of consequences the fires have even after they\u2019ve been extinguished, and how a Christian response to fires may look different in the wake of climate change.\xa0\nWhat is Quick to Listen?\xa0Read more\nRate Quick to Listen on\xa0Apple Podcasts\nFollow the podcast on\xa0Twitter\nFollow our hosts on Twitter:\xa0Morgan Lee\xa0and\xa0Ted Olsen\nLearn more about our guest: Paige Parry\nVisit our guest\u2019s website: The Parry Lab\nMusic by\xa0Sweeps\nQuick to Listen is produced by\xa0Morgan Lee\xa0and\xa0Matt Linder\nThe transcript is edited by\xa0Bunmi Ishola\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices