Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast Mike Davis : LA IMC
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Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast Mike Davis : LA IMC
“The Case for Letting Malibu Burn,” a chapter from Ecology of Fear, Davis argued that taxpayers shouldn’t keep forking out to rebuild a wealthy district that predictably burned to the ground every couple of decades. Davis
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THE DIALECTIC OF ORDINARY DISASTER Once or twice each decade, Hawaii sends Los Angeles a big, wet kiss. Sweeping far south of its usual path,
Mike Davis • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
There is a non-linear relationship between the age structure of vegetation and the intensity of fires. Fifty-year-old trees burn fifty times more intensely than twenty-year-old trees. However, because of the power of influential residents living in the Malibu region, since 1919 the local policy has been one of ‘total fire suppression’. This means t
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