Five times 15.
Thank you so much, Rosie and Jack and everybody.
Really, really good to be with you today.
It's still morning for me,
so you're way ahead of me and I hope you're all having a good day because,
you know, you're in the future.
So.
Fire weather intruded into my life on May 3, 2016,
and I made the mistake of looking at Twitter when I was actually in a really beautiful Italian writer's retreat working on a novel.
And so Twitter shouldn't be allowed in such places.
And yet there I looked at it, and this city,
Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, was completely shrouded in black smoke.
And.
And Fort McMurray isn't really known to people outside of Canada or North America.
And it is the largest source of foreign petroleum imports into the United States.
They just broke 4 million barrels a day of production.
It's about 600 miles north of the US border and 600 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
It's deep in the boreal forest, very isolated place, sitting on top of a gigantic bitumen deposit.
Bitumen is not oil, it is tar.
And in order to render it into something that an American petroleum company will want to buy,