During the catastrophic Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, philosopher Danielle Celermajer lived through the destruction that killed billions of animals and burned millions of acres. This collection of essays emerges from that experience of witnessing ecological collapse firsthand. Celermajer, who teaches at the University of Sydney and has written extensively on human rights and multispecies justice, brings phenomenological precision to describing what it feels like when the world burns. She writes of finding dying wombats and watching smoke blot out the sun, but also of the complex entanglements between human and nonhuman lives that bushfires reveal. The book moves between intimate observation and philosophical reflection, drawing on Indigenous knowledge traditions that understand fire differently than colonial frameworks. Celermajer examines how settler Australians might learn to live with rather than against fire, and what obligations we bear toward other species with whom we share a burning world. She resists both apocalyptic despair and false hope, instead advocating for what she calls 'staying with the trouble' of ecological grief. The essays model a form of environmental writing that refuses to separate analytical rigor from emotional honesty, offering readers tools for thinking through the climate crisis without looking away from its devastating particularity.